Straw-Man (for story 1: folding Beijing):
Based on the story set in “Folding Beijing”, I am thinking if I can make stable things interactive and let them be the connector among the three cities. For example, in the reading, it mentioned that “the ground was moving”. Since the folding Beijing is based on the concept that the earth is rotating so that people in each space are taking turns to live and work. If there is a straw-man that can connect all the straws on the ground together, then although the ground will be moving, they can still transfer the information between each other. There should be one antenna on each straw, and for the straw-man, it should have three with which it can connect the whole three spaces. For people who want to send information through them, they need to go the rural area of their space and find one straw-mailer, it will process if the information is able to be sent, if it is something more than a piece of information, such as the things LaoGe wanted to send to his parents, they will be delivered through the straw-deliver, and passed to other spaces. Otherwise, it will be passed one by one through the straws until the straw-man got it and send it to another space.
Since this imaginary object is too “imaginary”, there is nothing current design like that I could find. But I still think it is possible to realize. We are now considering all AI objects through robots or other man-made objects, however, I think it may be worth trying to integrate the AI technology into nature.
But, sure, I can foresee some big problems existing in my idea. First of all, if the ground or other natural world things can think and process information like us, how can we differentiate ourselves from them? And the second problem is quite obvious and direct if they can work so automatically, how can people like LaoDao earn money, although it is illegal?
Smart Facial Mask (for story 2: Newton’s Sleep):
In the story Newton’s Sleep, it mentioned that the “weather was the worst”, and that Sarah Rose also died of the toxics. Also based on the COVID-19’s experience, we know that it is hard to require people to wear their facial masks all the time, especially in the case of Newton’s Sleep, because no one knows when the inhaled is toxic. Therefore, I would like to design one air purifier that is embedded in the users’ faces. There will be a sensor that inhales gas per millisecond, it will process what the gas is and if it is harmful to human beings. If so, it will be lifted, isolate our breathing system with the natural surroundings, and send out clear air to us. In this way, we no longer need to worry about inhaling harmful gases. Also, it is quite interactive since its shape is personalized for every user to best fit their face profiles.
Based on my research, there exist some inventions that can release clear air for people, however, they are not so automatic and interactive as mine.
For the problem that I can foresee, I think there may exist one problem that how can we produce clear air since this design is based on the idea that the air is widely polluted. Also, I think it may be harmful to embed this gadget in people’s bodies.
Make AI’s Thoughts Aloud (for story 3: The Lifecycle of Software Objects):
In the novel, the author raised one question,” How will the Artificial Intelligence objects feel when they are sent to the real world”. Based on this question, I would like to design something that can interact with the Artificial Intelligence objects, since the whole novel is set up on the base that the AI objects can behave and think just like us. Therefore, my design will be an interactive composing keyboard on which all the AI objects can compose their own music. Later on, we can sense their feelings through the music they created instead of directly asking them.
There are many different kinds of music composers in the current market, however, there is no one that can interact with the AI objects. Adding on to that, I am thinking about how to make the composer communicate with the AI objects, for example, it can smartly play a piece of music similar to what the AI compose and that is created we human beings composed after one AI object finish his/her composing. Through this way, the AI objects are able to sense that we are having many similar thoughts with them and that they are going to be alone in this real world.
And currently, I cannot foresee any problem that can be brought by this invention.
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