Screen shot of the author's desktop
150331 Vast Idea
Concurrently Engineering the Seattle
Printmakers Center
Whether designing a passenger plane or a computer application,
concurrency is key, writes this author, as he sits down to a keyboard and
begins to define his multitude of projects and map ways that they interrelate.
It is like multi-screening impressions.
Plan for success
Whether designing a passenger plane or a computer application, concurrency
is key, and when I am fully engaged in my goals with all my physical and
intellectual powers, it is like watching TV, using a handheld, and a desktop
computer all at the same time—or multiscreening.
Example
As I make my plans for the day (today being the last day of March, 2015) I
think about the splash screen on my desktop and I know that the same screen
will appear on other peoples’ and also on mobile devices in handhelds, on
tablets, and on surfaces. That is because it is designed for the Internet.
Conscious of this, I’m conscious also that the next person who comes into
our family art gallery is a software engineer whose projects include some for
Microsoft in association with the Ad Council. They promote teaching
professions, reaching Millennials via the TEACH organization. This engineer, who
is a neighbor in our district of Seattle called “Uptown,” is interested in
buying an artwork to decorate a wall in his condo.
Millennials, according to the report on websites
(which the visiting engineer helped to design) are distinguished from most older
people because they are multi-screeners. For example, Millennials typically
watch TV, text, or browse the web all at almost the same time, or their moment.
Uptown Alliance
The challenge I face is to engage people in a neighborhood in Seattle
called “Uptown” (as compared to “Downtown Seattle” or “South of Downtown, or
SODO”) in an identity, with the objective of sustaining a high quality of life
for businesses, residents and visitors of Uptown. As property owners, my wife
and I are invested in this neighborhood, and we will do what we can to ensure
that we can enjoy a high quality of living here.
Impressions
If one participates in community activism, and to desires to achieve a
sustainable level of performance toward the goal of a high quality of life, then
impressions must be mastered. To
understand impressions today, you must think outside your neighborhood—take a
position outside your physical neighborhood and look in on it via multiple
screens. This, according to Big Data, has a decisive impact on your local
quality of life.
Art and technology
Reality is broken, said Jane McGonagall, and this applies to the approach
to take regarding a neighborhood like Uptown. I suggest we identify ourselves
as an “art and technology corridor” despite that the reality of life in Uptown
does not show this. I suggest a virtual reality approach, because it is better
to stake the quality of life here on the future, and not on the present state
of affairs, nor on the way things used to be.
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