Publishing Question

In this assignment, you will be imagining a fictional new application of emerging technology within your problem space.  Using the knowledge and analysis from your digital curation, how might your chosen technology be used in a new way alone or in combination with other existing or emerging technologies within your chosen business or societal context.  Instead of creating a prototype product, service, process, or experience, you will be communicating a fictitious (i.e. not currently existent) but possible future use case in a manner that accomplishes the following objectives:

Help managerial decision makers and other stakeholders with limited technical knowledge imagine how a specific technology or the convergence of multiple technologies might be used in the future within a specific context

Provide the means to consider implications of design decisions

1. Part 1:  Design Fiction
2. Select a year from 1-15 years in the future.  Be sure to state this at the beginning.  From the rest of Part 1, your point of view should be from that time in the future.  

Select a perspective: Optimistic, neutral, pessimistic

Select a format for conveying your imagined future. Options include:

Narrative story conveyed by essay, storyboard, comic, podcast, or video

• Artifact from the future such as an advertisement, press release, quick start guide, Instagram story, Twitter feed, Video blog, YouTube unboxing video, user testimonial, etc.
• Stretch your imagination and get creative within your problem space and design fiction format. If you want to use visuals, please don’t worry about artistic skill – stick figures, boxes, arrows, etc. are fine.Part 2:  Reflection on Design Decisions
  Identify 3 positive and 3 negative implications related to your design fiction in Part 1
• Implications of design decisions include risks and benefits associated with intended usage as well as unintended consequences if technology is misused (e.g. Farhad Manjoo’s “gadget’s worst nightmare” – )

In addition to economic implications, please consider environmental and socio-cultural impacts, especially on minority, marginalized or disadvantaged populations (e.g. EthicalOS Risks -)

• In addition to your personal perception of implications, share your design fiction with others and capture their reactions, both positive and negative. You can cite people by their initials to maintain anonymity.  
• Submission
  You can submit your Design Fiction (Part 1) and Implications (Part 2) as one or multiple file uploads depending on your format decisions
• Text submissions can be uploaded as Word, PowerPoint, PDF, Google Doc, etc. 

Hand-drawn or other non-digital visuals can be photographed or scanned.  If you want them to be viewed in sequence, I encourage you to paste your images into PowerPoint file (or similar)

Video is fairly easy to share using Panopto in Canvas, though you can also upload to another video platform and simply share a URL

Zoom is a useful tool for recording a podcast either with audio only or a simple visual (e.g. title) on screen as you record audio. You can upload an audio file or share a URL to your podcast.