- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
-
I The Physical World -
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account -
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe -
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible -
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations -
5 The Challenge of Climate Change -
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist -
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible -
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones -
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible -
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back -
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms -
II Information -
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide -
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science -
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge -
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit -
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence -
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies -
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology -
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place -
20 Encryption as a Human Right -
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology -
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic -
III Intelligence -
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron -
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior -
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango -
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces -
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World -
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet -
29 There Will Be No End of Work -
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob -
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything -
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo -
IV Epilogue -
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void - Name Index
- Subject Index
The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
- Chapter:
- (p.123) 11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms
- Source:
- Is the Universe a Hologram?
- Author(s):
Hiroshi Ishii
Adolfo Plasencia
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Hiroshi Ishii conducts research in the MIT Media Lab in two principal areas: the field of Human-Computer Interactions, and the field of interface design linking human beings, digital information and the environment. In this dialogue, Hiroshi describes two of the basic concepts of the Media Lab: the first is to achieve ‘tangible bits’ in human-computer interaction, and the second concerns ‘affordance’, which refers to the possibility of an action on an object or environment, in particular, those of which we are aware. He also explains how they create ‘digitally augmented objects’ to improve our understanding and knowledge of objects and their immediate environment. Hiroshi later reflects on the difficulties of developing natural language interfaces, and whether ‘things can think’—he is co-director of Things That Think. He also discusses breakthroughs with his ‘radical atoms’ vision of developing materials that have a shape and appearance which can be digitally transformed to make them as reconfigurable as pixels on a screen. Finally, he outlines some of his projects, such as eg. one related to the use of kinetic memory, the ability to ‘record and playback physical motion’.
Keywords: Human-Computer Interactions, Tangible Bits, Tangible User Interfaces, Things That Think, Affordance, Radical atoms, Natural language interface, Digital augmented objets, Embedded kinetic memory, Human-Computer Interfaces
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- How This Book Came About
- Powerful Ideas Dealt with in the Book
-
I The Physical World -
1 Quantum Physics Takes Free Will into Account -
2 Unifying Particle Physics with the Cosmology of the Primordial Universe -
3 For Exoplanets, Anything Is Possible -
4 From Casimir Forces to Black-Body Radiation: Quantum and Thermal Fluctuations -
5 The Challenge of Climate Change -
6 Graphene and Its “Family”: The Finest Materials Ever to Exist -
7 The Laws of Thermodynamics Tell You What Is and What Is Not Possible -
8 Wisdom Hewn in Ancient Stones -
9 Galileo Programme: Planning Uncertainty and Imagining the Possible and the Impossible -
10 Looking Forward in Architecture by Looking Back -
11 The Seamless Coupling of Bits and Atoms -
II Information -
12 Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide -
13 The Logic of Physics versus the Logic of Computer Science -
14 The Pillars of MIT: Innovation, Radical Meritocracy, and Open Knowledge -
15 We Need Algorithms That Can Make Explicit What Is Implicit -
16 The Emergence of a Nonbiological Intelligence -
17 Remembering Our Future: The Frontier of Search Technologies -
18 The Challenge of the Open Dissemination of Knowledge, Distributed Intelligence, and Information Technology -
19 Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place -
20 Encryption as a Human Right -
21 Order in Cyberspace Can Only Be Maintained with a Combination of Ethics and Technology -
22 The Free Software Paradigm and the Hacker Ethic -
III Intelligence -
23 “Affective Computing” Is Not an Oxymoron -
24 Mind, Brain, and Behavior -
25 MIT Collaborative Innovation: It Takes >2 to Tango -
26 Mind over Matter: Brain-Machine Interfaces -
27 We Want Robots to See and Understand the World -
28 Between Caves: From Plato to the Brain through the Internet -
29 There Will Be No End of Work -
30 A Smart Mob Is Not Necessarily a Wise Mob -
31 Measuring the Intelligence of Everything -
32 Touching the Soul of Michelangelo -
IV Epilogue -
33 Geometry of a Multidimensional Universe: Weightless Art and the Painting of the Void - Name Index
- Subject Index
