This week we got a new project working with students from MACCC about ‘future work’. I was puzzled about what we are going to do. We are going to work in two groups this unit–reading group and tutor group.
On Tuesday, I met my reading group and get to know new friends. My reading is ‘THE 3D ADDITIVIST COOKBOOK’. I learnt a new term–”Additivism”. It is a combination of “additive” and “activism” to suggest the potential for small-scale, incremental processes to have substantial and lasting effects. The author also present the 3D Additivist Manifesto. This is a manifesto about 3D printing and its potential to be used for revolutionary purposes. The authors believe that technology is not something separate from us, but a part of us and everything else in the world. They call for the use of 3D printing to create new things and ideas, including tools for espionage, self-defense, and protest, as well as drugs and other biological materials. They also suggest ways to recycle plastic waste and make biological and synthetic things work together.
My group member also shared some ideas about future working atmosphere affected by technology and political stuff, which I was not familiar with. I think I need to do some research to get to know these.
Also, I got some inspiration from a TED show. Some people are afraid that the technology will affect people’s job nowadays, like the self-driving car may replace the taxi driver. But the work history has been changed several times, from agriculture to industry. The occupation types have been changed.