Ever heard of bloggers? what I am doing for my assignments and creating a track of them through a blog is called blogging and those who do so are called bloggers.

Blogjets are similar to bloggers but in form of artificial technology.

“In its most basic form, a blogject is not dissimilar to people that blog — it is an artifact that can disseminate a record of its experiences to the web.”

Blogjects — objects that blog — don’t just “blog” in the traditional sense. Although there are some good examples of embryonic Blogjects that literally just blog (and don’t do a very good job of it — they’re hardly two-way, don’t pay attention to comments — but I guess some human bloggers don’t pay attention to comments either), blogjects in the near future will participate in the entire meaning-making apparatus that is now the social web, and that is becoming the “Internet of Things.” Blogjects most distinctive feature is that they participate in the exchange of ideas. Blogjects aren’t simply for publishing; they’re also for circulating dialogues. Not with some sort of theoretical high-tech wizardry or artificial intelligence engine. Blogjects, like human bloggers, become first-class a-list producers of conversations by initiating, maintaining, and being critical attractors in dialogues about issues that are relevant and meaningful to those with a stake in the discussion. It makes little difference whether the contribution to that discussion is made through some seemingly insignificant piece of networked disseminated information. A basic aggregation of pollution levels in groundwater can be used as a Blogject to start a discussion.

Take, for example, the Pigeon Who Blogs, an early protozoa on the Blogject species evolutionary chain. Beatriz da Costa’s project is The Pigeon Who Blogs. It’s a pigeon, or more precisely, a flock of pigeons, equipped with telematics to connect over the Internet without wires, a GPS device to track where they’ve been flying, and an environmental sensor to track the amounts of poisons and pollutants in the air they fly through. The flocks “blog” these morsels of information. 

They broadcast their flight trajectories, which are most likely available on a Google Map, as well as information about the present harmful state of the nearby environment. A full-order species evolution is shown by the Pigeon that Blogs, which is a mash-up of GPS, GSM communications technology, and pollution sensors. It’s a Google Maps mash-up with pigeon pollution. 

What does all of this imply? It’s more than the sum of its parts, like all good “mash-ups.” Whereas the pigeon used to be an urban varmint with little or no value as a member of the greater social collective, the Pigeon that Blogs today has first-class citizen status.

They go from being a frequent annoyance and a filthy threat to being a participant in life-or-death talks concerning the state of the micro-local environment in a flash. The Web 2.0 offspring of the Canary in the Coal Mine are pigeons that tell us about the quality of the air we breathe.

Blogjects have some basic qualities that are very much part of the Spimey world’s standards of behavior. These are characteristics, qualities, and eccentricities that may be found among things that participate in the social web, rather than definitive features. Here are three distinct characteristics of Blogjects: 

Blogjects keep track of where they are and have been; they keep self-contained (embedded) histories of their contacts and experiences. Blogjects always have agency — they may incite action and participation, and they have a strong voice on the social web.

Blogjects are really cool. Pigeons with special equipment that measures the amount of toxins and contaminants in the air. We while visiting several restaurants in Hong Kong  and evaluating them on OpenRice or Google. We’re becoming more and more linked to the Internet, and we’re leaving our imprints in the process. We can travel anywhere and learn about other people’s experiences through online reviews and blogs. Not to mention extending that experience to future generations.

Iot are physical objects that are connected to the world of internet.They have unique network identities making it identifiable uniquely, sensors allowing it to change according to its environment .storage and processing abilities as well as actuation meaning initiating actions based on commands or stored algorithm , remote access to be located within its environment and semantic interface for us humans. 

Inanimate objects are given souls to help us now. For instance, A.I. home technology has advanced so much since the past years,  We can ask our home assistant to play music for us, switch channels on our television, turn the lights or other appliances on or off, set reminders for us, help us plan events or even give health advices. Asking our pod to switch the lights off at 6 pm repeatedly everyday , and soon enough you wouldn’t have to ask for it anymore rather be asked if you want the lights off at 6. Amazing isn’t it? Objects no longer seem like materials but rather forms of humans or personal assistants, very much alive and helpful.

I believe that artificial intelligence will become much more embedded into our lives in the near future. This may already be seen in the progress of robotics. Like come on ! There’s even self-driving  robotic cars now! What are your thoughts?

references:

https://prezi.com/1lgxfron1kj0/the-internet-of-things-from-networked-objects-to-anticipatory-spaces/

Lupton, D. (2013) ‘Understanding the human machine’, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Vol. 32, (4), pp. 25 – 30.

Beatriz da Costa: PigeonBlog