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The Social Seat. An Urban Installation in the Age of the Internet of Things

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Michael Mondry,Tomoki Eto,Banny Banerjee

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The Social Seat. An Urban Installation in the Age of the Internet of Things

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Michael Mondry,Tomoki Eto,Banny Banerjee

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Design (Industry, Graphics, Fashion), grade: A, Stanford University (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school)), language: English, abstract: People share spaces such as cafes, airports, libraries, and classrooms for hours everyday. Often times, these people sitting right next to each other never even think to interact. They almost always have shared interests, some common ground on which they could interact. The Social Seat helps people converse and connect in a easy, interactive, and playful way using a physical chair that indicates one's willingness to talk, and common topics. This paper will discuss how the concept came to fruition and how we researched the market to find consumer preferences and needs.

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3668411379

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Chinese intervention in the Middle East and how it could shift the Balance of Power

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Anshan Li,Suolao Wang

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Chinese intervention in the Middle East and how it could shift the Balance of Power

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Anshan Li,Suolao Wang

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: A, Peking University (Center for Middle East Studies in the School of International Studies), language: English, abstract: In this paper, we analyze how China, as a rising world power, increases its authority for economic sanctions in the Middle East and how that affects the current negotiations between the United States, Arab countries and Israel. We will look into the deals and consensus that have been achieved between western countries and Middle Eastern ones, and what the interests for the United States are in order for it to invest its resources in foreign intervention in that area. At the same time, we will attempt to see how China is starting to intervene and what incentives China has for intervention or lack thereof, and how those incentives differ from the western incentives. Finally, we will look into how important issues such as nuclear terrorism, oil production and price-fixing, Zionism and Islamic states can be influenced by Chinese-USA competition for natural resources and political support, which problems are being worsened and which ones are being solved by the rise of China as an economic and political partner for Middle Eastern countries.

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3668411271

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Copyright Enforcement and Piracy Controls as a Potential Excuse for Corporate and Governmental Overreach

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Mark Vega

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Copyright Enforcement and Piracy Controls as a Potential Excuse for Corporate and Governmental Overreach

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Mark Vega

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: A, Stanford University, language: English, abstract: Wikileaks and peer-to-peer (torrenting) networks have not only allowed for piracy (illegally downloading movies and music without paying the distributors) but have also enabled free access to education in developing countries, and increased transparency for the public to control corporations and governments by making confidential information public. People can now freely distribute government, military and corporate materials without asking for permission from the original creators of those materials. This information revolution has also exposed information about various crimes such as a swiss bank Julius Baer’s money-laundering documents, unreported civilian deaths in the Afghan war, and the National Security Agency’s online spy campaign on American citizens. Governments and privates are concerned about these leaks and the potential of future exposures due to the lack of regulation of the internet. This fear by powerful corporations and states has led to increased interest in controlling and limiting the free access to information in multiple ways, including the criminalization of piracy and illegal document sharing, both via websites like wikileaks and via peer-to-peer networks like torrents. Criminalizing piracy (copyright violations) when there is no profit involved, encourages monopolistic economies, limits education, and enables censorship and control of citizens, so we as users and citizens should publicly discourage policymakers from passing legislation to further criminalize and prosecute internet users who violate copyright law via piracy or document sharing when there is no direct profit involved.

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The impacts and tradeoffs of technology, communism and inequality in the fiction of "Brave New World"

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Eric Roberts

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The impacts and tradeoffs of technology, communism and inequality in the fiction of "Brave New World"

By: Lucas Agudiez Roitman,Eric Roberts

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: B, Stanford University, language: English, abstract: In Aldous Huxley’s piece, “Brave New World”, one can find multiple ideas taken from Marxist ideology; specifically from Marx’ and Engels’ Communist Manifesto. The role of technology is in both works related to the creation of multiple classes, although with different power structures. This paper will analyze to what extent technology is pertinent in the pursuit of utopia, drawing parallels from the Communist Manifesto (where technology, which leads to a particular mode of production, is under attack) and the fictional piece, Brave New World (where technology also impacts the social order arguably negatively). The economic crisis of 1929, more commonly known as the Great Depression and Keynesian consumerist theory as a response to it, showed that there was a need for an alternative to address the shortcomings of capitalism. Socialism, was an enticing concept that not only sparked revolutions of nation states but also has become entrenched in modern culture.

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