Slides for week 4 of the introductory paper to Creative Technologies at AUT University, New Zealand 2019. Addresses the biases behind technology and options for the future of VR and the Internet.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klL6Go-FC5Q&t=365

2. http://www.fullhdwpp.com/
if your presence doesn't make an impact
your absence won't make a difference

3. “Technophilia”
A reverential and uncritical attitude towards technology
See also: Technological determinism

6. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=white%20genocide

8. Brené Brown on Empathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

9. “Clouds Over Sidra”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjWscImcosM
http://thesidraproject.ca/

10. “Why practicing empathy matters, and how VR can help”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtGjGmQwUQ

11. VR Goggles Gender Swap Experience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCprfChibTE

12. “Behind the Fence”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOefFymebMQ

13. “Life after Hate”
https://youtu.be/rWIMbH6tLks?t=163

14. “As We May Think” Vannevar Bush (1945): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
“The Aleph” Jorge Luis Borges (1945): http://www.phinnweb.org/links/literature/borges/aleph.html

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-PUXPVlos
Jaron Lanier

16. Weekly Activity: Paradigms
Watch or read and craft a personal response to:
“What are Paradigms?”
3 Video Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOGZEZ96ynI&list=PLPeStI124dee1ByfcDzRvPxKDNb0GQjmo&index=6&t=0s
“Paradigm” paper: http://www.ijhssnet.com/journals/Vol_6_No_10_October_2016/8.pdf