Dublin - Day 3

It's the second day of class and my third day in Dublin. I'm thinking about how to construct a research project. I have a mini-project that's related to the Media Lab I'm working on as well. There's a lot for me to think about -- I want media tools to be more accessible to people. However, I realize that there's a learning curve that everyone needs to go through.

I believe writing a journal is something that's very personal and meaningful and if there's some way that I can enable communities of people to share journals and share their stories I think we'll have been able to get at the fundamental advantages of all of this new technology.

I believe that there's a need for the world to understand itself more deeply and profoundly as ever before. There's an interdepence that comes out of globalisation and a need to connect with others -- not just thos people we already know, but those we have never met, nor may ever meet.

Why do we care about someone else's story? Is it because we share a similar story? Is it because we empathize with joy, hope, disappointment, fear, happiness -- all the things that make us human?

I enjoy the fact that art can play a role in research. "Research" has a lot to do with looking deeply into things and finding the meaning. It's easy in this world to get caught up in the sensation -- the sight, the sounds, the smells. To be "in the moment". However, we might not always be in the moment. We may want to revisit the moment -- can we really, or has time just simply passed and disappeared forever?