About the obsolete man and the juvenescence of the machine. From Antonionis disappearing "Blow up" character to Microsoft's future scenarios for disappearing humans. Unknowingly and obvious industry illustrates open and proud the future of the disappearance of man. The figure and the hidden ground. The man is obvious (that's why obsolete) the machine is the hidden (that's why important).

Title: Dandella
Contents: Hand-held robotic GPS companion
Producers: Tan Yong Kai / Priscilla Lui Sik Peng
Implementability of proposal: Lost is a common global issue, especially for socially vulnerable people like young children and elderly in today's growing urban jungles.

In 1962 the author Arthur C. Clarke proposed the following three "laws" (MA students might like to bear this in mind):

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

A while ago I wrote about how updating my ipod (4g clickwheel) to itunes 7 had killed my ipod (itunes killed my ipod!), falling victim to the sad ipod symbol which has become all too common occurrence for ipod users worldwide. If your ipod is out of warranty there is not a lot that can be done about it, unless you want to spend £166.29 having it repaired (quoted from apple site) or ebay-ing it for its spare parts (or taking a hammer and smashing it to pieces!)…or so I thought…

…such drastic action is probably not necessary. There is every chance you may be able to fix it, as I did, by taking some some rather bizarre actions….