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

Everything has been changed during the last decades from the concept of technology to its consequences on both society and peoples attitude. It is the new technology that brings new definition of places or activities. I was amazed with how the technology has changed the concept of gateway and entrance for cities. Previously each city has its own defined gateway which was recognizable by everyone entered to the city but now you cannot clearly show the cities boundary. After emergence of airports in cities and new kind of transportation system, the form and pattern of each city have undergone changes. For example, the major industrial areas in the cities moved to near the airports to be so close to the new gate ways of the cities and the connection of cities to the world of communication which is airports. Another point is that designing this kind of spaces has really affected by the functional concept of their content. It is the definition of departure or arrival that forms the plan of the airport. Besides, the need for controlling these major areas in terms of security required new kind of technology to be generated such as detectors, sensors or cameras. So we see it is the technology that introduced new kind of technology. Telecommunication and new media are coming through every parts of our living from working places areas to our private text messaging with friends. The physical dimension of every activity is being lost and if not has become less and less important because the communication media such as screen makes it easy for us to have access to everything far from us at that moment.

Speed of the technology improvement has a crucial effect on this procedure to destruction of the city or definition of spaces but the point is that it is not all about the technology itself. These are people and users of the technology that demonstrate their need for new type of technology .They used to be “consumer” which means that the technology was invented and they consumed it without thinking but in the contemporary era people have become “user” of the technology they use it and they want to interact with it. They define the speed of these changes; their expectations of technology have been increased so the technology has to adopt itself to the users. The new technology has some consequences that even the producer of that technology does not expect that.