Hardware to Software

A guest lecture to University of Prince Edward Island Philosophy 105, Technology, Values & Science on the technical and cultural transition from hardware to software, February 14, 2018.

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1. hardware ⇢ software Technology, Values, Science Philosophy 105 University of Prince Edward Island February 14, 2018 Peter Rukavina • Guest Lecturer https://ruk.ca/
2. goods ⇢ services
3. data ⇢ code
4. off the rack ⇢ bespoke
5. concrete ⇢ plastic
6. hardware ⇢ software
7. Telephone RGB In Video In Audio In Cable TV 35 mm Computer
8. Weather Forecasts
11. “Selling a single page of the Almanac online is going to cannibalize the sales of the printed Almanac!” This is a problem?
12. hardware ⇢ software
13. OpenCorporations.org
23. “The changes were made to take us back to the status quo,” said Katharine Tummon, director of corporations for the office of the provincial attorney general. “When we were apprised of (Rukavina's site) we immediately were looking to ensure that our corporate registry maintains its integrity.” She said the data was set up to be searched by company name only and was never intended to be used the way Rukavina's website does. She admits there's nothing in the current legislation to say that it shouldn't be used this way. This is because the Companies Act hasn't been updated since this kind of technology became available, Tummon said. “Other jurisdictions have modern provisions that are quite different from ours that place limits on the information.” December 9, 2008
24. hardware ⇢ software
25. Amazon Web Services
29. hardware ⇢ software
30. Care by Volvo
38. hardware ⇢ software
39. Choose Corrour
42. • Kickstarter crowdfunding • Online payments • Inexpensive video cameras • Inexpensive video editing equipment • YouTube as a video distribution platform • YouTube as an advertising platform • Open source software What made this possible?
43. Seeing “filmmaking” as a software process, not a hardware process. What made this possible?
44. hardware ⇢ software
47. software ⇢ hardware
48. hardware ⇢ software goods ⇢ services off the rack ⇢ bespoke data ⇢ code concrete ⇢ plastic
49. What does this mean? • Split up into groups of 3 or 4 people. • Discuss the questions: • On a broader cultural level, what might this hardware to software transition mean for politics? art? education? how we view our position in society? • Who’s left out of this transition? • Can we make it stop (if we wanted to)?