{"id":915,"date":"2015-05-07T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T04:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/?page_id=915"},"modified":"2015-08-17T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T05:34:19","slug":"communication-technology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/discussed-issues\/communication-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication &#038; Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"10\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/10-1024x720.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Technology has continued to improve the human condition from the wheel to the iPhone technology has made life easier.\u00a0 Every advance in human society in the last 200 years seems to be directly linked to a new technology or a new application of technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Technology has become a product.\u00a0 We are addicted to our computers and smart phones, they condition and control our lives.\u00a0 Communication is the area of fastest technological development and growth in human society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As products get ever more sophisticated, the effort and resources that goes into their manufacture gets every greater, generating bigger global industries and fueling ever greater consumption, resource depletion and waste.\u00a0 We need to question how this is advancing the human condition.\u00a0 Is it another expression of what I can\u2019t see (of the overall process), I don\u2019t need to worry about? And how will we change?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00xjRf62cGM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology has continued to improve the human condition from the wheel to the iPhone technology has made life easier.\u00a0 Every advance in human society in the last 200 years seems to be directly linked to a new technology or a new application of technology. Technology has become a product.\u00a0 We are addicted to our computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":984,"parent":1375,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/915\/revisions\/1444"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fac.arch.hku.hk\/courses\/designsonthefuture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}