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In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Personal Access Display Device (PADD) is a hand-held LCARS-based computer device that functions as a portable link to the ship's main computer, other portable devices, or data stored on isolinear chips.

Welcome to the Future

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The blurred line between

men and

The materialism of the commodity

sets up a

prosthetic system

in which social relations are determined by…

the material relations between commodities

ultimately:

Alienating men

from one another and from themselves.

In response to the novel physical and psychological demands

made by mobiles….

people have introduced new

stances, gestures

and

bodily movements

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'I think the iPhone will spur download of content through the

Apple ecosystem.”

Andrew Hoppe, VP of digital media

The core of the Apple ecosystem is

FairPlay…

which only allows music files downloaded from iTunes to be

played on an iPod…

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes. Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to

think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.

Our technology forces

Us to

live Mythically.

but we continue…

to think…

Fragmentarily…

and on

single,

separate planes.

My World

=

My Technology

As media extends, it also…

amputates.

on technology to converse.”Users are becoming less capable

of

direct social communication.

they rely on technology to converse

The mobile allows its users to believe that they are

entering a

private space

I phone immerses us in the reality of the I-world no matter

our place in time or space, public or private.

Costumized = I-community

In the contemporary fictional universe, the Ipod is a hand-held computer device that function as portable links to society’s main computer, other portable devices, or data stored on isolinear chips.

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The

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ARRIVED.

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Sources:

Tom Chen. "The Web is Everywhere." IEEE Communications Magazine 45.9 (2007): 16-.

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (Akpress, 2006)Michele H Jackson,. "Fluidity, Promiscuity, and Mash-Ups: New Concepts for the Study of Mobility and

Communication." Communication Monographs 74.3 (2007): 408-13.

Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message,” Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

(chapter 1)

Oliver Grau, “Historic Spaces of Illusion,” Virtual Art (Cambridge: MIT, 2003)Sadie Plant, “The Effects of Mobile Phones on Social and Individual Life”

www.motorola.com/mot/doc/0/234_MotDoc.pdf Sara Yin. "Media: Live Issue - Mobile Content and iPhone: A Match made in Heaven?" Media Asia

(2007): 60-.

---. "Media: Live Issue - Mobile Content and iPhone: A Match made in Heaven?" Media Asia (2007): 60-.