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myprofessionalpractice · 5 years ago

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platform for joy

What is happiness?

It can be defined in a variety of ways but we defined two; the first of which is that of a transient emotion, one that comes and goes due to successes and failures, or experiences. The second is the idea of a ‘happy life’, flourishing over time.

Aristotle defined ‘Eudaemonia’, a class of happiness that comes from a life of virtue and meaning, as opposed to pleasure. His theory is that eudaemonia should be our ultimate aim, and that pleasure and happiness are not the same.

When listing things that make us happy, we have a tendency to list material needs before others. There is proof that once we have achieved financial stability, money actually causes us increasingly less happiness: in fact, the more money we earn, the unhappier we get. Others may refer to an easy life, one with no challenges, but there’s no proof that this causes happiness either. Challenges enrich us and give us new experiences, ones we don’t earn if we never push ourselves above our limits. There are many surprising factors that we might think are great for us but aren't: plenty of choice (too much can cause decision fatigue, leaving us with no ability to make choices), efficiency (for example, ATMs instead of bank lines, leaving us with less human interaction) and hedonism (the pursuit of pleasure can actually lead to feelings of emptiness and lack of meaning).

The things that actually lead to happiness are far more simple. Examples of this include having shelter, good health and positive interactions with others. Another example is overcoming challenges which leads to an intrinsic feeling of reward, as opposed to receiving rewards from others. External rewards like grades might cause short-term happiness but the effect rarely lasts long.

Social connection is incredibly important in the pursuit of happiness. Epley and Schroeder (2014) found that passengers who interacted with other passengers, on a morning rush hour train, improved their wellbeing and the wellbeing of those they spoke to. Loneliness is proven to decrease cognitive function, mood and even immunity; people who are lonely are more likely to catch the common cold, for example.

In addition, our physical environment also affects happiness - where do we feel good? Often, it is by the sea, outdoors, away from civilisation. It’s proven that cities drain us: city dwellers suffer anxiety and psychological disorders at a much higher rate. Urban pollution affects our health and, in turn, our wellbeing. Plus, having discussed how more money can make us less happy, it’s often the case that people move to bigger cities for better jobs with better pay. Being away from this environment is proven to be better for us, both physically and psychologically. We are much happier around people we love, doing things we enjoy - especially in places we can work on and better ourselves.

The Pyreneès, August 2018

Physical environment also ties in to physical needs. As people, we need specific things to thrive: good diet, proper hydration, exercise, enough sunlight and at least eight to eight and a half hours of sleep. It’s very common that most of us don't do many of these; in fact, we have become used to being tired or having a poor diet and instead normalise it. As a society, being exhausted is very normalised, and we often use it to mean we’ve worked harder or achieved more, but this has a very negative effect on our happiness. Exercise not only makes us physically healthier but also psychologically; it offers both external and internal rewards. It’s been proven that we need at least half an hour of sunlight every day, even if it’s not direct, boiling hot sunlight - just being outdoors when it’s daylight is enough, especially on our faces and arms. Even sitting indoors with the curtains open instead of the artificial lights on can have an effect.

Exercise! March 2019

I found this lecture very interesting indeed. It confirmed a lot I already suspected, but it was great to hear Gareth’s thoughts on each matter. It also reinforced for me things I was letting slip; my eight hours of sleep a night, as well as the fact that I stand on the train platform with my headphones on and avoid interacting with strangers.

Research

As soon as we came out of the lecture and exchanged details, I set up a Google Doc to keep track of any research I came across and shared it with my group. The document can be found here! I compiled research on the importance of human interaction, research on happiness itself and how to be happier, and eventually once we’d come up with some ideas I did some research on the type of project we were considering. There are links to articles and YouTube videos that I found helpful and interesting, or took inspiration from. The ideas that we did come up with are also listed on the doc.

Although it was a document I shared with the group I was the only one to contribute to it until very late, so all but one piece is my personal research.

Our group, in our last meet up before lockdown!

Group Work

Before the university shut, and when we were still working as a group, we met up a few times and made as much progress as possible with the mind map. For our early meetings not everyone was present, but we each made contributions over time. We tried to include as much research as possible but we didn't manage to complete it entirely, and as we went into lockdown after one of our meetings it is still locked away in our university studio!

Unfortunately this picture was an early one, and we never got a chance to take a picture of it as we left it. Because of the lack of progress in the picture above I decided to complete a mind map of my own at home. The one below is my personal one. One of the pieces of research - the one in the top right concerning the psychology of colour - was Chloe’s research, shared in the group Google Doc, but the rest was my own.

The Pitches

We came up with a couple of ideas to pitch to our peers before we converted to working individually. Of course, this didn't end up happening, but we decided to all use the ideas on our own blogs, as we came up with them together in our meetings.

The first idea involved games, and partaking in a game with a stranger on the train platform. Lots of my research places huge importance on social interaction, especially with strangers. Epley and Schroeder’s famous study is named ‘The surprising benefits of talking to strangers’, and details how people that interacted with strangers in the morning found it had a positive effect on the rest of their day. We tried to incorporate this concept into our research.

We had a couple of doubts about it, however, that steered us away from this concept. First of all, perhaps people that are more introverted and shy wouldn’t take part in this idea. From personal experience, commuting to university multiple times a week, I know that most people on train platforms in the morning barely look at one another, let alone play a game with them. This was a factor in Epley and Schroeder’s research, as they said even introverts found there were positive benefits in talking to strangers. However, it’s entirely possible this introversion would mean people shy away from taking part.

Another thing that we discussed re: this idea was that we weren't sure that competitiveness should play a part in it. Many people are competitive and receive joy from winning and/or taking part in a game, but others aren't, and would avoid competition. We also weren’t sure whether losing a game would cause positive social interaction, as even though the people playing have interacted, the fact one lost may not cause the positive benefits described in Epley and Schroeder's research.

This second idea began from one of Kim’s suggestions and grew from there. He proposed a kind of interactive fountain that recognised movement, and your body movements changed the colours projected onto or lighting up the water. I tried to research into something similar, and although there was nothing quite like it, I found YouTube videos of other interactive sculptures and installations.

I also really love this one by FLUIDIC called Sculpture in Motion, a temporary exhibit for the New Design Museum in Milan. Although there’s a kind of magic captured in this exhibit, the real benefits come from its size and the lights in a dark room. I think this would be difficult to capture on a platform.

This one called River of Grass: Virtual Reality by Formula D Interactive is a tunnel exhibit mimicking the Everglades and its wildlife, using cameras and projectors to do so. I preferred this idea because it’s easy to personalise and is informative as well as interactive.

There are quite a few benefits to this idea. As a group, we liked how it could be individual. It combines a few of the aesthetics of joy: play, for sure, and others like surprise, harmony, energy and transcendence. Something unusual at the beginning of the day can surprise you into being happy for the rest of it.

The Project

The River of Grass: Virtual Reality exhibit is based around the wildlife in the Everglades in Florida. I thought this would be easy to emulate in an exhibit of my own in Derbyshire, seeing as Derbyshire and the Peak District is well-known for its wildlife. Below is a list of iconic Derbyshire wildlife, all of which were visually appealing and I hoped I could include in the project. I found and listed these from the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife Explorer, which will be relevant later!

The Everglades exhibit is aimed at children, but most of the people on a platform in the week are much older, usually adults commuting to work and students commuting to various places of education. I didn’t want the exhibit to be too childish, so using a more mature and illustrative art style helps this.

In our happiness talk, it was said that one of the big factors affecting our happiness is our physical environment. Access to nature and the great outdoors has a huge impact on our mental health and physical wellbeing, and tying this into my project could have an impact too. Being inside but having a projection that brings the outside to you could bring joy and improve the mental health of those walking through it in the station.

Derby Midland Station, like many train stations, has a long tunnel-like passage connecting the platforms together. This is the perfect area for an exhibit like this one, as it creates an enclosed space, where it’s possible to project images onto the walls and floor and create an immersive experience.

I have illustrated some of the animals included in the exhibit, as it’s not possible to see them up-close on the above picture. The idea is that they are visible on the projections, and some are easy to catch in passing (like the Chinese water deer) whereas others take more attention (such as the Hazel dormouse). This makes the exhibit not only something to look about, but also something that takes time to search through. It lends itself well to stations as many people, such as commuters, have little time to stand and search through the exhibit so will catch the larger, more obvious animals. Other passengers that have more time on their hands, ones waiting around for trains, can lend more time to looking.

Ideally, the projection would use sensors to add interactive elements to the exhibit, such as the grass moving as you walk through it, or a bird flies away or a mouse hides if you put your hand near it. This makes it a more active exhibit that creates entertainment through involvement, not just through aesthetics.

If I were an animator, or we were still working in a group and I had an animator working alongside me, I would include gifs as an example of how the animals might move. Unfortunately, if I tried to include them here, this blog would be uploaded in a year or so - my animation skills are not quite up to scratch!

Hazel dormouse (from the Woodland Trust).

Chinese water deer (from Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Great Spotted Woodpecker (from GardenBird).

So the exhibit is not just something to look at, I thought it would be useful to also make it a learning experience. Each animal on the projection is projected alongside a QR code, and a scan of the QR code sends the person scanning to a web page. I thought that it would be great to have the exhibit as a sort of collaboration between Derby Midland Station and the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, who have lots of information available on their website.

Learning has a big impact on our happiness. We are happier when challenging ourselves internally and learning new things. Making it quick and easy to learn something new, even if it’s as you walk through the station on your morning commute, can promote mental stimulation and therefore happiness and joy.

Including this QR code and link not only provides a learning element to the project but can also link in very useful conservation projects. Sending viewers to the Wildlife Trust page, one that relates to the animal they see before them, could aid in raising awareness for vulnerable species.

Yellowhammer (from Derbyshire Wildlife Trust).

Above is an example of the QR code concept (scan the code!) using the Yellowhammer.

On the Birds of Conservation Concern 4 (BoCC4) list by the British Trust for Ornithology, the Yellowhammer is included in the red section. Any bird on the red list is increasingly at risk and has shown massive declines in breeding populations. Most Derbyshire Wildlife Trust pages include the conservation status of the page’s subject, and further down has a section on “How people can help”, often with suggestions to join your local wildlife trust. Although many of these pages aren't fully complete with information on how to help from home, a possible partnership with the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust could encourage them to update the specific pages included in the exhibit with further information.

At the very least, including endangered or at risk animals and insects alongside more common, well-known Derbyshire wildlife would raise awareness for conservation efforts and give people access to more information about them.

Although not included in our happiness talk, those that volunteer or give to charity are happier (Patrick Svedin, Utah State University). If you give to charity through your own free will it contributes more to your lasting happiness than if you treat yourself with the same money, which provides momentary happiness that doesn't last as long. Learning more about the animals included in the exhibit means those that read the webpages have the knowledge to help local wildlife and, if they want to, the opportunity to donate to or become a member of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

So...

Platform for Joy was a weird project for me - and I think probably for many others too. I started off with a group, expecting a project carried out among multiple people, with a shared workload and shared ideas.

The change to individual instead of group work was quite smooth as I had completed most of the research I used by myself already. There are certainly ways that the project could have been elevated by group work, as people in groups have skills I do not (such as animation).

For the most part, I liked this project. I think it was fun to take a brief and carry it out like there was a possibility it might happen in real life. I think I came to a good conclusion and came up with a good project.

It was interesting to approach this from a place of mental health and happiness, and then tie in themes of my own like education and conservation. Anything in a train station will be seen by hundreds, if not thousands of people whilst it stands and as a result has the opportunity to educate and touch the lives of many. It would be foolish not to take advantage of this audience in order to spread a positive message.

Platform for Joy also gave me an insight into working as a group, however briefly, which was enlightening. I’ve often considered working in a studio after university and working alongside others to create outcomes. This project created an opportunity to experience that, even if I didn’t meet everyone in my group until much later!

It’s always helpful as a creative to work a brief from beginning to end, no matter what it is. Whether it be a practice brief or a real one, the process of researching, brainstorming ideas, creating mind-maps and finishing the project is very useful to work through. It lends experiences that are not unlike those I will be doing later in life, in my career as a creative, and of course it’s always a good idea to get as much experience as possible.

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nancygduarteus · 6 years ago

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The Art of Woke Wellness

I first felt reality shift when, at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, there was a line for a class called Body Blast Bootcamp, and I worried that there wouldn’t be enough room for everyone.

The draw to this explicitly not-fun undertaking, others in line told me, was that we would be glad to have done it when it was over. We all made it in, and the workout studio was a carpeted conference room where an Instagram-famous instructor with a microphone headset was waiting to give us high fives. “The hardest step is showing up!”

Once we started working out, a person walked around apparently taking Instagram videos, and people were not bothered by this. Another brought a mini tripod to get some shots of herself in action. There was shouting and a Coldplay house remix. Someone offered me a box of alkaline water, and I drank it because no neutral water was available.

Body blasting was just one of the hundreds of classes, sessions, panels, talks, and silent dance parties at the inaugural Wellspring wellness festival. Last month some 2,000 mannequin-shaped people floated into Palm Springs, California, for what advertisements promised to be “a first-of-its-kind wellness festival, that will feature over 200 transformational workshops, treatments, and fitness across multiple categories.” The goal was to “provide seekers the tools to learn and take action in real time for a healthier mind in a relational platform.” (Relational platform was a new term to me, but people seemed less than pleased when I used the word conference.)

The scene was otherworldly from the first whiff of essential oils on the premises, the palatial Palm Springs Convention Center and an adjacent resort hotel. Almost all of the attendees (seekers) were under 40 years old, and all looked well below it. Many could not be picked out of a lineup of Lululemon models. At least one actually was. There were celebrity speakers lined up to lend their expertise, including the comedian turned spirit guide Russell Brand, whose face is the poster for the event, and Alicia Silverstone, best known for her starring role in Clueless, who currently sells a line of vitamins out of an expressed concern that all other prenatal vitamins on the market can be harmful to fetuses.

The water was in boxes because Wellspring purposely forwent wasteful plastic bottles—a half measure, after inviting thousands of people to exercise in the desert. The water was alkaline because that’s a trendy new way to sell people water, and its maker was a sponsor of the festival. The class, too, was sponsored, an Adidas logo projected onto the wall. Outside was a food truck selling Bulletproof concoctions with “brain octane oil.” In a capacious central cavern was “one of the world’s largest wellness exhibitions,” where vendors pitched cosmetics and supplements and bars and tonics. On offer were complimentary CBD-oil massages (sponsored by the seller of said oils) and a balancing of people’s sacral chakras with something called a BioCharger (trademark), “a natural cellular revitalization platform that uses a full spectrum of light and harmonic frequencies to deliver restorative energy” and that promises to help with “creativity, sexuality, and acceptance of new experiences.”

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

This deluge of products alternately offered to fill attendees with energy or to calm us down, but almost never to keep us as we were. The implicit allure of such products was that we were not okay, or at least could be better. Given all the ways in which most people believe we could be improved, “wellness” has become an all-encompassing concept and industry that not only eats into the territory of mainstream medicine, but that has subsumed what used to be called “alternative medicine”—that which alludes to scientific claims when convenient and also defines itself in opposition to the scientific establishment.

In theory, wellness is a democratizing movement. And yet admission to this relational platform was almost $1,000. That was the price of a ticket alone, not to mention airfare and subsequent purchases of elixirs and foams and polyester clothing.

At the opening social event, I made conversation by asking people what had brought them to the festival—which mostly featured things available in most metropolitan areas, and sessions of the sort that can be viewed online. I thought that constituted small talk. By the end, I realized it was not; many people had come for reasons that run deep. I went to the desert wary of the worst side of the wellness movement as an elitist industry that preys on the very human desire to feel like we’re getting ahead of others, but the more I talked to people, the more I realized that the attendees were largely aware of the problems, and wanted to get back to a distilled notion of why people have long come to love wellness trends and fads: the promise of connection.

Wellspring is produced by a quickly growing company called Wanderlust, “a global wellness platform” and “a multi-channel company focused around mindful living” by way of “renowned festival events, a full-service media company, and several permanent yoga centers.” Wanderlust was founded in Brooklyn 10 years ago and has since been putting on small, music-and-yoga-based festivals. But Wellspring is a new and much grander undertaking, lasting multiple days and based mostly on workshops and high-profile panels and lectures.

As it grows, Wanderlust is morphing with and redefining the many-billion-dollar industry. The gift bag seekers received upon checking in contained a spectrum of the products that have become synonymous with wellness: turmeric tea “whose yellow sustains life’s majestic glow,” probiotic capsules labeled “non-dairy” and “DEFENSE + IMMUNITY,” little light-tan-colored circular sticky patches that promise to be “your blemish hero,” hemp-infused honey called B. Chill (respectable for apparently going out of its way to avoid a very easy bee pun), a “germ-resistant” bag for yoga mats, Before You Go toilet spray, and on and on.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

This event goes well beyond the initial vision of Wanderlust’s CEO, Sean Hoess, who sat down with me one morning by a hotel pool in running clothes. Hoess is 48, but like many Wellspring attendees looks a decade younger. He just renovated a house in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is openly “not a wellness buff”—he prefers tennis. After graduating from Columbia University, he went to law school, but quit practicing to start a record label with a college friend, Jeff Krasno. Krasno’s wife, Schuyler Grant, ran a yoga studio above their office, and the three of them had the idea to start a festival combining the two fields.

Wellness is in many ways a counterpoint to the inefficient and inaccessible and alienating elements of the U.S. health-care system. While it may have antiestablishment origins, the industry is now subject to criticism as a new elite establishment, and one that profits off of serious insecurities and medical problems. Marketing for the festival alludes to the opioid epidemic that killed 72,000 Americans last year: “With our world being affected by addiction and mental-health issues, the Wellspring festival couldn’t come at a better time.” At a time when millions of Americans bear medical debt or are doing jobs they would otherwise quit, because they need health insurance, Wanderlust offers monthly payment plans (“rates from 10–30 percent APR”) to afford a ticket.

[Read: The harder, better, faster, stronger language of dieting]

Elitism was a hot point of contention and discussion among attendees. The convention center was literally divided into two camps: One wing held the expo, with its many aforementioned products, while some 100 yards away a separate wing housed stages where speakers condemned wanton consumerism.

“A significant cost is the association of wellness with money—thinking you need something external, tinctures and potions and balms. Its, you know, it’s the stuff that’s here,” said the Zen priest Angel Kyodo Williams, the second of only four black women recognized as teachers in the Japanese Zen lineage, during a talk in the latter wing as she gestured in the direction of the expo. “And there’s nothing wrong with those things, but we have a psychic connection that wellness equals something I can purchase, something I’m in competition for, something that I have to acquire because it’s not intrinsic to me.”

Williams instead defined wellness as self-determination: “being able to determine my gender, who I love, who I sleep with, having housing I can afford.”

In one early-morning session of “mindful running ”—sponsored by Adidas—the only two other men in the group were there to accompany their wives. Indeed, this was a heavily female event, the “feminine energy” being celebrated at multiple points and the role of men in wellness debated. Should we men be allowed at all?

I went to one interactive session on masculinity, and I was asked to do eye gazing for several minutes with another man while answering prompts like “Something I’m afraid to tell you is” and “Something I love about myself is.” It is meant to teach men to be expressive, and to see that it can feel normal and good. The only strange thing for me was the uninterrupted eye contact at abnormally close range, about a foot. The women in the session watched us do the exercise and shared their reactions afterward, and many seemed genuinely moved because they hadn’t seen men talk to each other like this before.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

Wellness isn’t just gendered. Most of the products and services that define the industry are clearly marketed toward young, thin, toned, ambulatory women who are white. Some speakers were blunt about the fact that wellness is often synonymous with—and sometimes a proxy for—whiteness. One panel was literally called “Wellness Beyond Whiteness,” in which it was decided that wellness needed to be totally reconciled into something for everyone—not to simply be “inclusive” or “bring people to the table,” but to demolish the table and, as with any growing movement, keep building new tables.

The old “bring people to the table” metaphor rang especially egregious to the artist and writer Anasa Troutman, who had a similarly revelatory vision for wellness: “Unless we’re willing to make a commitment to community, we will never be well. Even if you wake up every morning and drink your juice and do your yoga, without that commitment to each other we will not be well as a country and as a world,” Troutman said.

For a wellness festival, there was an unexpected amount of talk about the importance of suffering and pain. In one panel about addiction, the ultramarathoner Charlie Engle, who ran 30 marathons in his first three years of sobriety, told the story of his first son being born. “He was gonna save me,” Engle recalled, “and then six days later, after a crack binge, the police are searching my car, and I had to choose between living and dying. And I chose running ... I wanted to pound that part of me out and never visit it again.”

Engle has since run across the Sahara desert, among other death-defying feats that go well beyond what could be considered good for the joints. This was not a passing hobby or a way of dropping a few pounds. It was, rather, a purposeful blasting of the body. The running community provided for him fellowship and camaraderie, as it does for many people struggling with addiction. It also helped him realize that he didn’t have to give up being intense and passionate and obsessive; he just needed to channel these features in less destructive ways. “Do I run addictively? I’ve been accused of it,” he said. “But I’ve never lost my car after a run.”

The emerging theme was that sitting with pain was integral to finding one’s path to wellness. Yet none of the products in my complimentary tote promised pain. I checked.

The centerpiece of the weekend was a keynote by Russell Brand. I got in early as a member of the media and grabbed a seat in the front row of the enormous multipurpose convention space. I was sitting watching stagehands and audiovisual technicians bustling around when, about 10 minutes before the crowd was to be let in, Brand came onstage and appeared horrified at the layout of the audience seating. There was a 12-foot aisle in the center, directly in front of where Brand was to stand at his microphone. “This is death,” he scolded, pointing at the space. “I’m supposed to perform into this?”

He asked and then demanded that the 200 or so chairs in the middle of the auditorium be rearranged. This required summoning the fire marshal (as the aisle was a matter of code) who insisted that no changes could be made. Brand held his ground. Event planners gathered around him trying to talk him down. Even if it weren’t for the fire code, moving the chairs at this point would have to be done by union workers and would take time. The audience was waiting outside baking in the sun, Hoess, Wanderlust’s CEO, reminded Brand. But he was insistent. I sensed he was willing to threaten to not go on at all when the organizers finally broke down and agreed to move the chairs.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

What at first seemed petulant, though, was actually a vital objection. The importance of spatial connection with the audience wasn’t a note from just a seasoned comedian, but from a person with experience in 12-step meetings and giving counsel to others going through addiction. Once the audience was finally inside and seated in the newly arranged chairs, Brand put his finger directly onto a nerve. “You’re all here because you’re misfits,” he opened, stifling the residual energy from his introduction. “You wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t something you’re trying to fix, now would you?”

Brand’s talk veered only more earnest, about his own trials with addiction to crack and heroin and how 12-step programs helped him “get the keys to his life back.” Drugs are a symbol, he implored. “The craving isn’t for drugs. All yearning and desire are inappropriate substitutes for what you want, which is to be at one with God, which is connection.”

[Read: The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous]

It could have been confused for a sermon had he not been dressed in black-leather pants and cursed so much. And like many people, he’s not exactly aligned with Alcoholics Anonymous’s religious tone and bent, and so he has rewritten the 12 steps in more colloquial terms for anyone who wants to change, whether the addiction is to “eating badly or to bad jobs or to pornography.” Brand’s own 12 steps, projected on a slide, are:—Are you a bit fucked?

—Could you not be fucked?

—Are you, on your own, going to unfuck yourself?

—Write down all the things that are fucking you up or have ever fucked you up, and don’t lie or leave anything out.

—Honestly tell someone trustworthy about how fucked you are.

—Well, that’s revealed a lot of fucked up patterns. Do you want to stop it? Seriously?

—Are you willing to live in a new way that’s not all about you and your previous, fucked up stuff? You have to.

—Prepare to apologize to everyone for everything affected by your being so fucked up.

—Now apologize. Unless that would make things worse.

—Watch out for fucked up thinking and behavior and be honest when it happens.

—Stay connected to your new perspective.

—Look at life less selfishly, be nice to everyone, help people if you can.

After breaking this down, Brand took questions from the audience. The first was from a person in the third row who said her brother is an addict who keeps coming to her for money. What should she do? Brand moved to the very front of the stage and looked into the back of her eyes and told her she knows what she has to do—which is cut him off, let him hit rock bottom. She said, yes, she knows, and she cried.

He asked the room, “How many of you have had to detach from a loved one because of addiction?” About half of the people raised their hands. He told them they were right and to never second-guess themselves. Some people don’t make it, but no one does when enabled.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The emphatic takeaway is that the opposite of addiction is connection. Beating the disease is fundamentally about preempting the point where you lose the freedom to choose: Don’t hold the drink in your hand; don’t go to the party where you know exactly what will go down. In the moment before the bad decision, Brand urged, “you have to make the commitment to call someone who can be your North Star. Someone who is not spellbound in that moment. Someone who can tell you the problem you’re trying to escape is still going to be there, and it’s not going to work, and you’re gonna feel like shit afterward. This is why we need people further down the path, so they can hold our shit as we grow.”

For the rest of the hour, Brand was holding the shit of the entire Palm Springs Convention Center.

The people at Wellspring were easy to talk to. They were into eye contact, and open about how what Brand had said was true: Beneath the good vibes and aerial-yoga acrobatics, many attendees at this conference told me they were sober or currently dealing with addiction. The ultra-runner Engle was not alone in the conscious replacement of substances with wellness. But addicted or not, many of the people I met had turned to wellness to explicitly fill some space previously occupied by a substance or behavior or person, so as not to relapse into self-destructive habits.

“I don’t do anything a little bit,” said Nadia Bolz-Weber, a speaker whose recovery from addiction led her to become an ultraprogressive Lutheran minister. “I think that whole ‘balance’ thing is just another thing society made up to make me feel bad about myself. I’m not going to be someone who’s not intense, that’s not going to happen. So I was intense about the way I drank and did drugs.”

There are evident parallels between the isolated, secular American lifestyle and the sale of identity, community, and guidance on how to live. The festival’s speakers were called “guide leaders.” Wanderlust’s slogan is “Find your true north.” When I asked Hoess how he thought the festival was going, he said it was great because everyone looked “totally blissed out.” The idea kept coming up that we all worship something, and that God is a necessary construct if only to have something to conceptually subordinate the self.

This is at odds with the consumerist bent to wellness. If the movement indeed rejects the quick-fix products, which seems infeasible, it’s unclear what wellness is to become. If wellness is actually essentially the inverse of consumerism, and nearly synonymous with connectedness and wholeness and feeling complete, then the industry will need a new way to monetize.

Connection itself can be monetized, of course—in ways that create factions and cliques, or in inclusive ways that bring together people of various socioeconomic strata. That actually may look something like Wanderlust. The market is flooded with things we can consume alone on our couches or at the gym with headphones in. But we are hungry for connection—to hear the same things said but to have a person speaking directly to us (and to a few hundred other people).

The last time I was in Palm Springs was a year ago for the TEDMED conference (relational platform?), and at the time I was mystified. It was a full house at the price of $4,950 a ticket, even though TED Talks are available for free online. The videos can be sped up if the speaker is boring, segments can be skipped, and tabs can be opened to keep the talk running in the background while getting some email done or shopping for shoes. There would seem, then, very little reason to need to go to the actual conference, to sit through marathon sessions where a fair number of speakers mess up or forget their lines (as I did).

Yet people attend. In the same vein later this month in Los Angeles there is a conference called Summit LA, which features a “wellness” track and includes speakers like Wim Hof, “the Ice Man” who teaches people how to be cold. The price including a “medium” room at the Ace Hotel is $9,100.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The consumption of commodified connection doesn’t need to require a small fortune, though. In fact, it can’t, by any of the new, woke definitions of wellness. Hoess would like to get Wellspring up to 4,000 people or so, he tells me, in order to keep the price down. I met two seekers who were there on scholarship, and four who had won a ticket through an Instagram giveaway (people actually do win those things). Hoess contrasted his model with smaller events like the Aspen Ideas Festival (which The Atlantic has long been a partner in producing), which tend to be more expensive at least partly due to scale.

The other way to make such things accessible is to inundate attendees with advertising—which can undermine the concept by making us feel inadequate without this product or that, rather than by affirming our wholeness. Poolside, Hoess told me that he believes there can still be profit in a less consumerist direction, but that it’s necessary to “redefine capitalism to where it’s not just about pure profit, it’s also about social profit. If we can merge those things, I think business becomes a force for good.”

I rolled my eyes.

“Hey, you can roll your eyes, and I know there are bad [companies],” said Hoess, likening wellness to the health-care industry. “Obviously the system is fucked up, and it causes weird incentives, and eventually people get jaded and maybe lose their passion for doing good.”

So how does the wellness movement keep perspective and stay focused on what matters? It’s not about just finding one’s true north but following it, day after day, year after year. Straying happens as more of a gradual slide than as any single decision to go down a bad road. You start off doing what you think is right or helpful or normal, and then it feels good to make some money, and then it feels necessary, and you have an obligation to grow and to be seen as flourishing and successful. Then before you know it, you’re running a huge company that’s preying on seekers and begging them off course.

Everyone strays; everyone tries to avoid pain instead of learning from it; everyone has ways of escaping anxiety that aren’t productive. At its best, wellness offers habits and practices around which to build a community that will help you feel whole, or at least distract from the sense of inadequacy that drives people to self-injurious behavior—whether it be substance abuse or gambling or mistreating others or spending three hours a day on Instagram despite knowing it makes us feel bad.

Once I understood this, Wellspring’s lingo and the community signifiers and the products over which people bond and become “obsessed” and build rituals seemed a lot less silly or predatory. I did leave the desert in a better state than I arrived, though with nothing that—at least hypothetically—couldn’t be had for free.

from Health News And Updates https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/11/wellspring-festival-woke-wellness/576103/?utm_source=feed

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The Art of Woke Wellness

I first felt reality shift when, at 7 a.m. on a Saturday, there was a line for a class called Body Blast Bootcamp, and I worried that there wouldn’t be enough room for everyone.

The water was in boxes because Wellspring purposely forwent wasteful plastic bottles—a half measure, after inviting thousands of people to exercise in the desert. The water was alkaline because that’s a trendy new way to sell people water, and its maker was a sponsor of the festival. The class, too, was sponsored, an Adidas logo projected onto the wall. Outside was a food truck selling Bulletproof concoctions with “brain octane oil.” In a capacious central cavern was “one of the world’s largest wellness exhibitions,” where vendors pitched cosmetics and supplements and bars and tonics. On offer were complimentary CBD-oil massages (sponsored by the seller of said oils) and a balancing of the sacral chakras with something called a BioCharger (trademark), “a natural cellular revitalization platform that uses a full spectrum of light and harmonic frequencies to deliver restorative energy” and that promises to help with “creativity, sexuality, and acceptance of new experiences.”

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

[Read: The harder, better, faster, stronger language of dieting]

Williams instead defined wellness as self-determination: “being able to determine my gender, who I love, who I sleep with, having housing I can afford.”

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The emerging theme was that sitting with pain was integral to finding one’s path to wellness. Yet none of the products in my complimentary tote promised pain. I checked.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

Brand’s talk veered only more earnest, about his own trials with addiction to crack and heroin and how 12-step programs helped him “get the keys to his life back.” Drugs are a symbol, he implores. “The craving isn’t for drugs, all yearning and desire are inappropriate substitutes for what you want, which is to be at one with God, which is connection.”

[Read: The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous]

It could have been confused for a sermon had he not been dressed in black leather pants and cursed so much. And like many people he’s not exactly aligned with Alcoholics Anonymous’s religious tone and bent, and so he has rewritten the 12 steps in more colloquial terms for anyone who wants to change, whether the addiction is to “eating badly or to bad jobs or to pornography.” Brand’s own 12 steps, projected on a slide, are:—Are you a bit fucked?

—Could you not be fucked?

—Are you, on your own, going to unfuck yourself?

—Write down all the things that are fucking you up or have ever fucked you up, and don’t lie or leave anything out.

—Honestly tell someone trustworthy about how fucked you are.

—Well, that’s revealed a lot of fucked up patterns. Do you want to stop it? Seriously?

—Are you willing to live in a new way that’s not all about you and your previous, fucked up stuff? You have to.

—Prepare to apologize to everyone for everything affected by your being so fucked up.

—Now apologize. Unless that would make things worse.

—Watch out for fucked up thinking and behavior and be honest when it happens.

—Stay connected to your new perspective.

—Look at life less selfishly, be nice to everyone, help people if you can.

After breaking this down, Brand took questions from the audience. The first was from a person in the third row who said her brother is an addict who keeps coming to her for money. What should she do? Brand moved to the very front of the stage and looked into the back of her eyes and told her she knows what she has to do—which is to cut him off, to let him hit rock bottom. She said, yes, she knows, and she cried.

He asked the room, “How many of you have had to detach from a loved one because of addiction?” About half of the people raise their hands. He told them that they were right and to never second-guess themselves. Some people don’t make it, but no one does when enabled.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The emphatic takeaway is that the opposite of addiction is connection. Beating the disease is fundamentally about preempting the point where you lose the freedom to choose: Don’t hold the drink in your hand; don’t go to the party where you know exactly what will go down. In the moment before the bad decision, he urged, “You have to make the commitment to call someone who can be your north star. Someone who is not spellbound in that moment. Someone who can tell you the problem you’re trying to escape is still going to be there, and it’s not going to work, and you’re gonna feel like shit afterward. This is why we need people further down the path, so they can hold our shit as we grow.”

For the rest of the hour, Brand was holding the shit of the entire Palm Springs Convention Center.

The people at Wellspring were easy to talk to. They were into eye contact, and open about how what Brand said was true: Beneath the good vibes and aerial-yoga acrobatics, many attendees at this conference told me they were sober or currently dealing with addiction. The ultra-runner Engle was not alone in the conscious replacement of substances with wellness. But addicted or not, many of the people I met had turned to wellness explicitly to fill some space previously occupied by a substance or behavior or person, so as not to relapse into self-destructive habits.

“I don’t do anything a little bit,” said Nadia Bolz-Weber, a speaker whose recovery from addiction led her to become an ultra-progressive Lutheran minister. “I think that whole ‘balance’ thing is just another thing society made up to make me feel bad about myself. I’m not going to be someone who’s not intense, that’s not going to happen. So I was intense about the way I drank and did drugs.”

There are evident parallels between the increasingly isolated, secular American lifestyle and the sale of identity, community, and guidance on how to live. The festival’s speakers were called “guide leaders.” Wanderlust’s slogan is “Find Your True North.” When I asked Hoess how he thought the festival was going, he said it was great because everyone looked “totally blissed out.” The idea kept coming up that we all worship something, and that God is a necessary construct if only to have something to conceptually subordinate the self.

This is at odds with the consumerist bent to wellness. If the movement indeed rejects the quick-fix products, which seems infeasible, it’s unclear what wellness is to become. If wellness is actually essentially the inverse of consumerism, and rather nearly synonymous with connectedness and wholeness and feeling complete, then the industry will need a new way to monetize.

Connection itself can be monetized, of course—in ways that create factions and cliques, or in inclusive ways that bring together people of various socioeconomic strata. That actually may look something like Wanderlust. The market is flooded with things we can consume alone on our couches or at the gym with headphones in. But we are hungry for connection—to hear the same things said but a person speaking directly to us (and to a few hundred other people).

The last time I was in Palm Springs was a year ago for the TED MED conference (relational platform?), and at the time I was mystified. It was a full house at a price of $4,950 per ticket, even though TED talks are available free online. The videos can be sped up if the speaker is boring, and segments can be skipped and tabs opened to keep the talk running in the background while getting some email done or shopping for shoes. There would seem then very little reason to need to go to the actual conference, to sit through marathon sessions where a fair number of speakers mess up or forget their lines (as I did).

Yet people attend. In the same vein later this month in Los Angeles there is a conference called SummitLA which features a “wellness” track and includes speakers like Wim Hof, “the Ice Man” who teaches people how to be cold. The price including a “medium” room at the Ace Hotel is $9,100.

Melissa Gayle / Wanderlust

The consumption of commodified connection doesn’t need to require a small fortune, though. In fact, it can’t, by any of the new, woke definitions of wellness. Hoess would like to get Wellspring up to 4,000 people or so, he tells me, in order to keep the price down. I met two seekers who were there on scholarship, and four who had won tickets through an Instagram giveaway (people actually do win those things). Hoess contrasted his model with smaller events like The Aspen Ideas Festival (which The Atlantic has long been a partner in producing), which tend to be more expensive at least partly due to scale.

The other way to make such things accessible is to inundate attendees with advertising—which can undermine the concept (by making us feel inadequate without this product or that, rather than by affirming our wholeness). Poolside, Hoess told me he believes there can still be profit in a less consumerist direction, but it’s just necessary to “redefine capitalism to where it’s not just about pure profit, it’s also about social profit. If we can merge those things I think business becomes a force for good.”

I rolled my eyes.

So does the wellness movement keep perspective and stay focused on what matters? It’s not just about finding one’s true north but following it, day after day, year after year. Straying happens as more of a gradual slide than any single decision to go down a bad road. You start off doing what you think is right or helpful or normal, and then it feels good to make some money, and then it feels necessary, and you have an obligation to grow, and to be seen as flourishing and successful. Then before you know it, you’re running a huge company that’s preying on seekers and begging them off course.

Article source here:The Atlantic

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A Brief History of data Technology

YEAR DESCRIPTION

1957 Planar transistor developed by Jean Hoerni

With this technology the integrated circuit became a reality. This process forces sure varieties of atoms to infuse into AN otherwise pure piece of chemical element. These impurities or dopants create the conducting and management structures of the transistors on the chip. With this technology, microscopic circuit boards could be arranged out on the Si surface, thus permitting the compacting of these circuits onto integrated circuits.

1958 First integrated circuit

In 1957, a group of eight physics engineers and physicists shaped Fairchild Semiconductor. The next year, one of these men, Jack Kilby, produced the initial computer circuit for industrial use.

1960's ARPANET developed by the U. S. Department of Defense

Originally intended as a network of government, university, research, and scientific computers, the Advanced Advanced Research comes Agency NETwork was designed to change researchers to share data. This government project eventually grew into the Internet as we all know it nowadays. The networking technology and topology was originally designed to survive nuclear attack. This was back during the Cold War era, when most scientists expected that the USA would be subject to a nuclear attack sometime. The design needed that the network would route traffic and information flow around any harm. This robustness enabled the web to grow at unbelievable speed, until nowadays it serves up any of billions of internet pages.

1962 The first recorded description of the social interactions that may be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" construct. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through that everybody may quickly access information and programs from any website. In spirit, the concept was terribly abundant just like the web of nowadays. Licklider was the first head of the pc analysis program at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, starting in Oct 1962. While at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency he convinced his successors at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT research worker Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept.

1969 UNIX Operating System Developed

Developed at AT&T labs by engineers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, the UNIX software package was the primary operative system that ran on a digital computer and will handle multitasking and networking. It was also written within the C artificial language - then a high level language with power and suppleness. Other operative systems existed, but they were sometimes written in assembly language for speed and potency. C was a natural environment for writing AN operative system. Today, both C and UNIX system area unit out there for a wider selection of element platforms than the other artificial language or software package. This level of portability in laptop programming makes UNIX system in style even still.

1971 First microprocessor chip

Three inventors, Andrew Grove, Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore founded Intel to manufacture store chips in 1968. In 1971, the 4004 microprocessor chip, designed by a team under the leadership of Federico Faggin, was introduced to replace the central processing units that so far had been created from separate parts. The microprocessor chip was born. Intel's later products, from 8080 through 8088 and currently Pentium IV were all descended from the 4004.

1972 Optical laserdisc

Back in 1972, music was sold on vinyl records. These records were large platters with spiral grooves cut in them. The music information was keep in the grooves by dominant the depth and direction of the cutting machine. However, the grooves eventually wore, resulting in cut fidelty. The laserdisc was created by Philips to correct this problem. Instead of grooves, pits were burned into the aluminum surface to represent the 1's and 0's of laptop technology. A laser beam either mirrored off the spot or was absorbed by perdition. The early laserdiscs were an equivalent size and shape as vinyl records, but they may hold each video and audio on their reflective plastic platter. The information had to be browse by a laserdisc player, which was at first costly. But in time this became a in style medium for home movies.

1974 Motorola microprocessor chip

Motorola's 6800 was the forerunner of the 68000. The 68K was used in the first Macintosh ADP system. It provided the computer power unit to run a graphical program, or GUI. Although the Intel micro chip line would return to dominate desktop computing, the current Apple computer merchandise still use Power laptop chips, which area unit the descendants of this powerful micro chip chip.

1975 Altair Microcomputer Kit

The Altair personal computer is the initial laptop computer out there to the final public. In fact, it made the cowl of physics Illustrated in 1975. The Altair was the initial laptop that was marketed to the house enthusiast. It came as a kit, so it was most fitted to individuals with engineering backgrounds. The front panel consisted of a series of small, red light emitting diodes and the user may list and run programs written in machine language. The program listing and the results of the program after it had run were browse off this show as a binary variety. It was up to the programmer to browse the results. The programmer may load the laptop with a brand new program by setting the switches for every machine language code and depositing the binary variety into memory at a given location. Needless to say, this was a time-consuming process; however it delineate the initial time that home enthusiasts may get their hands on real element.

1977 Radio Shack introduces the first pre-built laptop computer with integral keyboard and show

This was the first non-kit laptop computer to be marketed to the final public. In 1977, Brad Roberts bought one of these Tandy/Radio Shack computers, known as the trS-80. It came with a simple mag tape player for loading and saving programs. This allowed Brad to do data processing, using programs like CopyArt. It also created a revolution in thinking that step by step took hold and gained momentum throughout the next decade. No longer would the pc be seen as a rich mathematical tool of enormous scientific, military, and business institutions, but as a communication and data management tool accessible to everybody.

1977 Apple Computer begins delivery of the Apple II laptop The Apple II came totally assembled with a integral keyboard, monitor and operating system software system. The first Apple II's used a mag tape to store programs, but a floppy disk drive was shortly out there. With its ease in storing and running programs, the floppy disk made the Apple II laptop the primary laptop appropriate to be used in school school rooms.

1984 Apple Macintosh computer

The Macintosh was the first laptop to come back with a graphical program and a mouse inform device as customary instrumentation. With the coming of the macintosh, the personal microcomputer began to endure a significant revolution in its purpose and use. No longer a tool for just scientists, bankers, and engineers, the microcomputer became the tool of alternative for several graphic artists, teachers, instructional designers, librarians, and information managers. Its basic metaphor of a user desktop with its very little folders and paper documents hit home with these users, many of whom had ne'er seen a huge laptop mainframe. The Macintosh would eventually develop standardized symbols for use by humans in communicating with the machine and ultimately contribute to the planet Wide Web's trope of a virtual world. The Macintosh GUI conjointly paved the means for the development of transmission applications. The hardware obstacles that prevented hypermedia from turning into a reality were no additional.

Mid 1980's Artificial intelligence develops as a separate discipline from data science.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be a somewhat broad field that covers many areas. With the development of computer programing involving ever increasing levels of complexity, inheritance, and code re-use culminating in object oriented programming, the software foundations for AI were arranged . Other developments in informatics, neural networks, and human psychology supplemental their contributions. Some practical however as of nonetheless imperfect implementations of AI embrace knowledgeable systems, management information systems, (MIS), information looking out victimisation fuzzy logic, and human speech recognition. Artificial Intelligence today is best outlined as a set of electronic science tools that may be applied during a myriad of innovative ways that to existing data technologies. Most scientists believe that a machine can ne'er be designed to replicate the human mind and emotions, but can be wont to do additional and additional of the tedious labor find and presenting the suitable data in humanity's Brobdingnagian, evergrowing collection of information.

1987 Hypercard developed

In August of 1987, Apple Computer introduced Hypercard to the public by bundling it with all new Macintosh computers. Hypermedia was a reality at last, with the hardware and software currently in place to bring it into being. Hypercard made machine-readable text document linking attainable for the average one that needed to make AN data network linking all of his or her electronic documents that might be entered or affixed into a Hypercard stack. Based on the trope of index cards during a direction box, it was easy enough for even young students to use. Yet it was powerful enough to become the software system tool wont to produce the traveler academic transmission titles. Hypercard also had provision for showing graphics ANd dominant an external device to display video, which would ideally be a laserdisc player.

1991 450 complete works of literature on one CD-ROM

In 1991, two major industrial events took place that place the facility of read-only memory storage technology and laptop based mostly search engines within the hands of standard individuals. World Library Incorporated produced a totally searchable read-only memory containing 450 (later distended to 953) classical works of literature and historic documents. This demonstrated the power of the read-only memory to require the text content of many bookshelves and concentrate it on one tiny piece of circular plastic. The other product was the electronic version of Grolier's reference that truly contained a number of photos additionally to text. Both merchandise were originally marketed through the Bureau of Electronic commercial enterprise, a distributor of CD-ROM merchandise. Many saw this as the final in personal information storage and retrieval. They didn't have to attend long for abundant bigger things within the world of transmission. Though each titles sold-out at first for many hundred greenbacks, by 1994 they could be found at electronic epizoon markets commerce for a greenback or 2 every. Technological advances had occurred so chop-chop in this space that each the transmission laptop customary and also the Macintosh multimedia extensions created these 2 merchandise obsolete during a few years.

1991 Power PC chip introduced

Working along, Motorola, Apple, and IBM developed the Power PC reduced instruction set computing processor to be utilized in Apple Computer's new Power Macintosh. The product line currently includes the 601, 603, and 604 microprocessors. These chips are designed around a reduced instruction set machine language, intended to manufacture additional compact, faster execution code. Devotees of the Intel CISC chip architecture warmly disagree with this assertion. The result is that the patron benefits from the extraordinary competition to develop an improved laptop chip.

1991 The Internet is born

The World-Wide Web was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee, with assistance from Henry M. Robert Caillau (while each were operating at CERN). Tim saw the need for a typical connected system accessible across the vary of various computers in use. It had to be simple thus that it may work on each dumb terminals and high-end graphical X-Window platforms. He got some pages up and was able to access them together with his 'browser'.

1993 1993 Internet access and usage grow exponentially, as tools become more out there and easier to use. People begin referring to the web because the internet.

1995 Term Internet is formally outlined

On October twenty four, 1995, the FNC unanimously passed a resolution shaping the term web. This definition was developed in consultation with members of the internet and material possession rights communities. RESOLUTION: The Federal Networking Council (FNC) agrees that the following language reflects our definition of the term "Internet". "Internet" refers to the global system that -- (i) is logically connected along by a globally distinctive address house supported the web Protocol (IP) or its ensuant extensions/follow-ons; (ii) is ready to support communications victimisation the Transmission management Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite or its ensuant extensions/follow-ons, and/or other IP-compatible protocols; and (iii) provides, uses or makes accessible, either publicly or in camera, high level services layered on the communications and connected infrastructure represented herein.

1995 CDROM Capacity increase A handful of read-only memory disks has the capability to store all the information and reminiscences of a median person's period of time.

1999 Y2K Bug Feared

When computers were initial designed, memory was a precious resource. To conserve memory, dates were stored in a compressed type, utilizing every bit (i.e. single binary digits containing 1 or 0). Not surprisingly, years were stored as 2 decimal digits, 00 through 99. As the end of the second millenium came, fears arose as to what would happen to computer systems once the new millenium started. Early tests showed that many computers improperly handled the transition from 1999 to the year 2000, so this became far-famed as the twelvemonth bug.

A massive effort was undertaken to avert this doomsday situation. People feared that planes would fall out of the sky. All computer supply code was reviewed, and fixes were designed for the problem areas. Some were band-aids, just compensative the date by, say, 50 years or thus. Others were massive rewrites of supply code that had been running with success for thirty years. Engineers were called out of retirement that had worked on the supply code within the Nineteen Sixties.

2000 On January one, 2000, everyone command their breath. Although there were some issues , the general population never saw them. The massive twelvemonth bug worst case situation had been averted.

2002 DVD introduced

The Compact Disc was by now in each home. But the CD suffered from the reality that it solely contained audio or musical data. A new medium, known as the Digital Versatile Disc, or DVD, came to the market. The DVD may store video or audio. It had capacity for gigabytes of data, where the CD was restricted to megabytes. This technological development made it attainable for shoppers to obtain home movies once more. The DVD worked like a laserdisc, reading the pits in the media via a laserbeam without creating physical contact. Hence, there is virtually no wear and tear on a DVD.

2003 Broadband takes off

Broadband is the name for top capacity interfaces between the house and also the public web. In 2003, this became readily out there in most metropolitan areas of the North American country. This made it attainable for laptop users to transfer files that were megabytes in size in simply a number of minutes, rather than taking hours over a modem association. This rapid increase in capability enabled all types of new applications, including musical file sharing.

2004 A/V CPU Chips Arrive

PCs have always depended on integration of circuits - i.e. the IC chip of 1958. New CPU chips mix the methodor with new capabilities to process audio and video. The result is a brand new set of computers with in-built support for top Definition (HDTV) and seven.1 surround sound. This will more cut back prices whereas providing even smaller packages.

2005 Blogs Take Off

Blogs are personal internet areas wherever people will share their own thoughts and ideas. Corporations began to incorporate blogs in their networks, allowing staff to use refined internet server technology to speak concerning their work. Unfortunately, sometimes this lead to issues, as employees shared additional than they were supposed to; however on the total, most employees found a new, creative outlet for style.

2006 HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray

Players and game consoled were introduced for both new high definition video formats. It reminds you of the war between VHS and Beta. But United Nations agency can win? solely time can tell. However, the winning format promises to capture the DVD market for years to come back. So billions area unit at stake. And the consumer wins within the long-standing time as DVD takes on further resolution and quality. The amazing factor is that a piece of media victimisation these formats will store a minimum of thirty GB! Still, we area unit a long means from having the ability to create laptop backups on these media.

2007 Blu-Ray Wins

Game consoles finally settled down with Blu-Ray winning the format war. Now game developers and players alike will concentrate on the new games that this format permits.

2008 Memory

Memory prices continue to return down, enabling smaller and smaller electronic gadgets. Where can it all end? perhaps a postage stamp sized memory circuit to carry all of the memory you may ever would like. In actuality, there are researchers at IBM operating on simply that. Stay tuned.

2009 Smart Phones

Smart Phones became additional and additional in style, as businesses like Apple and Google came on board. In one sense, these devices have become handheld computers, integrating Personal data Management applications. Besides business applications like eMail and instant messaging, these phones now offer amusement. As 3G technologies grow in popularity, data traffic conjointly will increase - to the purpose of being a tangle for the most network carriers. The cell phone has become the indispensable device that everybody has and uses everywhere.

2010 Social Networking

Social Networking sites really take off in quality. Who would assume that one thing as straightforward as uploading a image to an internet website may become thus popular? nonetheless, thousands, even millions are doing simply that on sites like Facebook. And others are self-tracking their each move thus their friends will notice them where they're on sites like Twitter.

2011 Tablets Take Off

The Apple iPad raises the bar for functionality and vogue in pill computers. These hand held devices, about the size of a book, can access the web, display the pages of thousands of books, play music, play videos. Apps become ubiquitos.

2012 Storage Explodes

Hard Disk storage finally exceeds Terabytes (TB) per drive unit. This drives the cost per GB below $1. Computers now appear to return with additional storage than anyone will use.

2013 Internet Of Things

The Physical and Digital Worlds fused along. Real time traffic reports started appearing, based on the present feed from cameras mounted on the road. Self-driving cars appeared on the highways in NV. Cutting-edge apps have raised the social flow of data for all.

2014 Internet Of Everything

The Internet is currently connecting everything from cars to edifice buildings. The challenges include however to extend this property in ways in which enable individuals in specific places to share data with their group. This information flow became immediate and drove social changes like the Hong Kong protests.

2015 Data As A Service

Big information can emerge as the price of storage within the cloud continues to drop. IT vendors will then provide information As A Service (DAAS) to industrial and public entities. Analytics for these huge information stores can enable fast analysis and management. Machine learning will continue to grow

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A Brief History of data Technology

YEAR DESCRIPTION

1957 Planar transistor developed by Jean Hoerni

1958 First integrated circuit

In 1957, a group of eight physics engineers and physicists shaped Fairchild Semiconductor. The next year, one of these men, Jack Kilby, produced the initial computer circuit for industrial use.

1960's ARPANET developed by the U. S. Department of Defense

1969 UNIX Operating System Developed

1971 First microprocessor chip

1972 Optical laserdisc

1974 Motorola microprocessor chip

1975 Altair Microcomputer Kit

1977 Radio Shack introduces the first pre-built laptop computer with integral keyboard and show

1984 Apple Macintosh computer

Mid 1980's Artificial intelligence develops as a separate discipline from data science.

1987 Hypercard developed

1991 450 complete works of literature on one CD-ROM

1991 Power PC chip introduced

1991 The Internet is born

1993 1993 Internet access and usage grow exponentially, as tools become more out there and easier to use. People begin referring to the web because the internet.

1995 Term Internet is formally outlined

1995 CDROM Capacity increase A handful of read-only memory disks has the capability to store all the information and reminiscences of a median person's period of time.

1999 Y2K Bug Feared

2000 On January one, 2000, everyone command their breath. Although there were some issues , the general population never saw them. The massive twelvemonth bug worst case situation had been averted.

2002 DVD introduced

2003 Broadband takes off

2004 A/V CPU Chips Arrive

2005 Blogs Take Off

2006 HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray

2007 Blu-Ray Wins

Game consoles finally settled down with Blu-Ray winning the format war. Now game developers and players alike will concentrate on the new games that this format permits.

2008 Memory

2009 Smart Phones

2010 Social Networking

2011 Tablets Take Off

2012 Storage Explodes

Hard Disk storage finally exceeds Terabytes (TB) per drive unit. This drives the cost per GB below $1. Computers now appear to return with additional storage than anyone will use.

2013 Internet Of Things

2014 Internet Of Everything

2015 Data As A Service

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