ARC 597 | On Speed Situated Technologies Intellectual Domain Seminar, Fall 2014

“lagging”, “freezing”, “crashing”, etc. . All of us have heard these terms and generally “technical problems” before. “According to some technical problems”, because a technical problem”, “caused by a technical problem”.

Are technical problems just for ubiquitous computers? Are they just a part of our personal computers, laptops, phones, and tablet? Do they happen because we are not using powerful computers and devices in our quotidian lives?

Of course not. I remember my father’s first desktop computer with 8 MB of storage lagging and I now experience moments in which one of my devices stops working properly. The more things get complicated, the more technical issues come to the table and this phenomenon of technical problems seem to be never-ending.

You are using your Wi-Fi and It stops working for a while, sometimes you wish you never had one. When technologies around you don’t work properly, it really gets on your nerves.

I don’t want to come to any conclusion, however;

Once Sal arrives at work, she has to wait for 20 minutes for the technical support team to dispel the foreview which stopped working again for the third time this month. As she walks into the building,the machines in her office prepare to log her in but do not complete the sequence until she actually enters her office. The same error again; “incorrect user name or password” . So she has to log on manually and wait for everything to be arranged . Sal glances out her windows: a gray day in Silicon Valley, 75 percent humidity and 40 percent chance of afternoon showers. She doubts on the information because they were exactly showing the sentences which they were yesterday. She taps the update bottom and waits for the update. After 1 minute I is still loading the information so she just forgets about it.