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Social-Physiological Evolution: Thumbs Up, Sit Down and Shut Up Self-styled cyber-feminist and technological futurologist Dr Sadie Plant first identified the Oya Yubi Sedai (the thumb generation) while researching the impact of hand-held technologies such as mobile phones and computers on the young. A report in the Observer newspaper (24 March 2002) stated that a ‘physical mutation’ had taken place in the under 25s, with the thumb replacing the index finger as the pre-eminent control digit. Meanwhile, in a less evolutionary body/mind development, the Police Authority in Lancashire, in partnership with the local Primary Care Trust, has been exploring a no-standing policy in Preston’s pubs. The police are concerned that standing, ‘vertical drinking’ and its related physical interaction causes violence to flare up. Reported in the New York Times (28 August 2006), Jack Turner questioned whether this new social control initiative could sober us up, citing several other failed experiments in design puritanism. One wonders how this legislated posture proposal might develop, with overexuberant gesticulation discouraged and the ‘elbows up’ pint-downing of the seasoned drinker outlawed due to health and safety concerns. Sadly, I must also report the slow demise of social whistling. Judith Eagle, writing in the Guardian (11 October 2006) asks: ‘Why don’t people whistle now?’ Dr Stephen Juan, an anthropologist at the University of Sydney, cites two possible reasons: one, that popular music is less ‘whistleable’, and/or two (more plausibly) that the proliferation of portable music devices has (temporarily) curtailed our own mobile tune-making capabilities. Robot Care: Robots Care Writing in the Guardian newspaper (11 October 2006), Christopher Manthorp (operations manager for older people’s services at Kent County Council) describes his disappointment with the future. In this fledgling 21st century he does not think that technology has serviced society with the kind of transformative potential that so much science fiction predicted. This, however, may be changing, especially with the increasing use of assistive technology (AT) in the care of the elderly. Presently consisting of clunky remote alarm systems indicating the patient’s well-being, Manthorp speculates on a future where robots ‘will stalk the Earth, gossipping gently to isolated older people while cleaning the carpets and making the tea’. This sentiment certainly resonates with Paul Judge’s assertion that ‘good technological design can make us all happier’, given during the Royal Society of Arts 250th anniversary conference in 2004. ‘Design must play a central role in ensuring that people will not be isolated or reduced by the technology revolution.’ Richard Greenhill of the Shadow Robot Company (http://www.shadowrobot.com) has long believed in the social use of the robot and its associated technologies, arguing that the anthropomorphism of the Shadow Biped research project (no longer operational) is clearly justified by staircases and their mechanical negotiation. Likewise with their current research project, the Shadow Hand, which controls 24 degrees of freedom with 40 air muscles. It could certainly handle a cup of tea. 4 ‘McLean’s Nuggets’ is an ongoing technical series inspired by Will McLean and Samantha Hardingham’s enthusiasm for back issues of AD, as explicitly explored in Hardingham’s AD issue The 1970s is Here and Now (March/April 2005). Will McLean is joint coordinator of technical studies (with Peter Silver) in the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster. The Shadow Robot Company, Shadow Hand air-muscle-actuated robot hand with 24 degrees of freedom, 2006. Text © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images: p 140 © John-Paul Frazer; p 141 © Richard Greenhill 141+
Site Lines Night Pilgrimage Chapel Laura Moffatt describes how Gerold Wiederin’s chapel in Locherboden, Austria, has been built as a focus for nocturnal Masses, giving architectural expression to a pilgrimage spot that was previously no more than a clearing in the forest. 142+
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