beats, rhymes and life
For our Future of Television Final Project, we submitted a video to illustrate the user journey and benefits provided by the concept. JoynTV is a multi-platform video content and gaming experience.
[Future of Television] JoynTV Final Presentation from Jason Rosado on Vimeo.
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For my Social Activism Using Mobile Technology class, Nathan Freitas asked us to devise a future scenario of social activism. Here is my submission:
My name is Raul Acosta Coutinho Jimenez. I am 64 years old. I am originally from Salvador Da Bahia, Brasil.
I now live in Havana, Cuba with my wife in a Bed and Breakfast in a recently renovated townhouse that sleeps 6 comfortably with a garden, an in-ground pool and outdoor cinema.
My son also makes his home in this household and he is the reason for our current lifestyle. When he isn’t home, we offer his room and 2 others in our townhouse to medical tourists arriving from the United States.
Back in 2011, my son Andres developed an iPhone app that sold millions of downloads through the iPhone store. The app was influential all over the world, and also led to the dramatic opening of the Cuban society and economy for foreigners (and capitalists).
The app was essentially a Sims type video game that in a fun, yet effective, way simulated the experiences of the average Cuban citizen. The app takes advantage of a decision in 2011 that was made by the Cuban government after a series of hurricanes devastated the island.
The Cuban government, urged on by its struggling citizens after the hurricanes, relented to some of the pressures of its American antagonists. As a result, a summit between Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama established an exchange of American meteorology and mobile communications technology for access to the benefits of the world reknown doctors in the Cuban healthcare system. This exchange provided the Cuban government with radar, video and telecommunications technology that blanketed our island in hopes of knowing when the next tropical depression would occur, where it would hit hardest and how to prepare for it. The exchange also provided the American citizen free and easy access to our island (without consequence) in order to access our public healthcare system. The necessity for this summit was urged on by the dramatic failure of the US healthcare reform legislation of 2009. In 2016, there are 60 million without access to healthcare, but now 2 million US citizens come to our island monthly for their healthcare needs.
When the island was devastated by hurricanes in 2011, the iPhone Sims Cuba video game adjusted its game environment to reflect the signs of the times. As a result, the millions of people who played the Sims Cuba video game for fun, then realized the devastation to the virtual community equaled that of the real community. As a result, hundred of virtual donations poured through the application from virtual citizens of the world to their virtual Cuban counterparts. A portion of the proceeds from the app went to a foundation established by the United Nations. These foundations, flush with cash, provided the average Cuban with the critical resources necessary for a better life. As a result, the average Cuban felt compelled to push their government representatives for more resources and more open-ness in their society.
And that is how and why I’m here. My son decided to buy a home for us here, since he spent so much time here for business and diplomacy. Now that Cuba is more of an open and “capitalist” society, we can manage our Bed and Breakfast business through our own iPhone app. As they say, “Que Viva Cuba!” “Long live Cuba!”
New phone concept that moves beyond the popular touch screen interface onto other locations such as the back and sides of the phone. Brilliant!
Here’s our Final group presentation for Future of the Infrastructure with Art Kleiner at ITP. Our group focused on a future scenario with a focus on the average life experiences living and leveraging ubiquitous sensor networks, namely in the form of mobile devices. We decided to avoid (as much as possible) the sinister “1984″ approach, and instead focused on “positive” perceptions of the future in 2016, as we saw it…
I’ll post the actual video when it becomes available since the presentation only tells half the story. The spoken portions add more personal experiences.