Folding Beijing
In the story, thousands and thousands people are doing the rubbish sorting work in the third space. One artifact fits the story would be a machine that can automatically detect and sort different kind of wastes. The machine has several claws to grab and sort rubbish in the right way. This kind of machine must be very popular in the society, but will also cause a huge decline in the employment rate.
Newton’s sleep
In this story, one conversation is about removing the monitor to reveal the true ground of the Spes. One interactive artifact can be a pair of glasses that has the same function as the monitor, to cover the ground with the image of the earth. Using this artifact, people can see the scenery on earth through the glasses while there is actually nothing but ground. As designed by the user, the glasses would be able to show different scene as well as different seasons. Problems caused by this invention can be that people may see a fake tree or a fake lawn that is not convenient for people to walk.
The lifecycle of software objects
As the digients can only live in the digital earth without the help of a robot body. The interactive artifact in this story can be a room with many projectors and cameras that can project the digients in real world. People can see and interact with their digients inside this special room. The vision of digients can be provided with the cameras in the walls, while they can also speak through certain micros. The limit of this artifact is that people can’t actually touch their digients as they are only projected into the room and have no entities.