CSC 175 Creative Computing Seminar: Assignments








Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Friday, September 2, 2016

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Friday, September 9, 2016

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Friday, September 16, 2016

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Friday, September 23, 2016

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Friday, September 30, 2016

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Friday, October 7, 2016

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Friday, October 14, 2016

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Friday, October 21, 2016

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Friday, October 28, 2016. Pre-Halloween

Primitive Pumpkin Piercing Pictures




Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Friday, November 4, 2016

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Friday, November 18, 2016

Friday, November 21, 2014

Wednesday-Friday November 25-27, 2015

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Friday, Dec 2, 2016

  • Thought exercise: RoboWorld
    Imagine that the world has reached a state where every good and service needed for a comfortable material life is provided by robots and computers with the assistance of a few experts (managers engineers, etc., say 1% of the population) Comfortable material existence means decent food, housing, clothing, other technological artifacts needed for daily living, transport, information access, health care (robodoc), education (MOOCs etc.)... BUT, there are still limits on the total amount of stuff that can be produced (e.g. there is not enough land on earth for every person now alive to have a 1 square km. estate). So the productivity of the world's robots still needs to be divied up somehow. Call the process the economy.

    The world's current economic game is basically needs-based. Person A can do something person B needs to live comfortably (make a house, grow food, install a computer, bring bananas from Brazil, remove a tumor), and stuff is basically allocated by people bargaining for exchange of essential services they can provide (with the whole process greased and made incredibly interesting and complicated by liquid, universal debt, aka money). But if the people are not needed to provide necessities, then no one (except maybe the 1% and the robots) has anything to seriously bargain with, and the system would seem to lose its driving energy.

    Plan to write a page or so (for Friday) speculating about how a worker-free economy might operate. What would the rules be? How is the loot divided up and finite (if large) resources allocated? It is notoriously difficult (probably impossible) to predict how a set of rules will play out in society except by trying it, so consider whether any existing or previously tried systems offer evidence as to how your ideas might work. The only criterion is that the economy must be one into which you would be happy to be dropped (as one of the 99%). Just remember that the material you have to work with is human beings, who are limited, fallible, and (at least to start with) often damaged.


    Wednesday, Dec 7, 2016

    Friday, Dec 9, 2016

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