Week7:::::::Group11

(Mazi, Ron, Ramy, Yung-Hoon)

We started our discussion with this question: whether the human-computer relation today is a symbiosis? Licklinder argues that in order to have a man-computer symbiosis we have to develop AI and computers must be able to participate in a real-time and formulative thinking. By what he describes as symbiosis we believe that today relation of man-computer is a symbiosis, as we both depend on each other, although AI is not developed they way that Licklinder describes. But we answered this with the fact that today’s computer is an extention of our senses as McLuhan described, thus it is not a dissimilar organism. But we must also consider this that when computers develop an AI to a level that it can be an organism of itself as it functions much faster than us, there is a chance of us being controlled by the machines of greater power.

At the end we drew a relation between the two text; in how they both describe a coded and computed way of activities, where Licklinder has a more emphesis on the physical activities and Flusser is more interested in the synthetic imagination and the zero dimentional process than can produce a 2D image or reproduce a 4D image in a 2D form.