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////SLIM CHIPS = THE FUTURE OF PAPER!?/////

Since a couple of lectures ago there was a long discussion about the future, I thought I'd bring this up. It's a product design by Hafsteinn Juliusson in Reykjavik, Iceland. I guess it's vegetarian (since the papers are from trees) and low fat.

So you see now: THE FUTURE OF PAPER
*all books will be vanished because of the amazon kindle - and where do all currently existing papers go? - WE EAT THEM!


Future will always be a future and the past will always be the past:
yes, according to the current concept of time. But here - someone has come up with the new way to tell time... CORPUS CLOCK by Dr.John Taylor



I mean yes, it's mainly the new design of a clock - and I must say I am not quite pleased by this clock aesthetically, but it gives me hope, for some reason that there will someday be a day when we review the concept of time.


By the way, I have recently signed myself up for couchsurfing.com
It's a website, where people can basically meet others from all around the world, to sleep at their places. You, as a user, would meet a person you sleep with for a couple of nights online. Well, literally it is correct to state so, but no, it's mainly for travelers who are seeking more personal immersion to the culture by meeting the locals and being taken around by them and staying with them to actually see how people live. It's cheap for them anyway, because you don't have to pay anything. I think it's a great concept - I heard about this for the first time a couple of years ago from my college friend, but it was still an abstract idea. But over the summer I met a French girl in Japan, who was using couchsurfing as her main source of lodging. That was my first time meeting someone, who actually was an user of this website.

Two things I particularly find interesting:
1. With so many internet based crimes and scams occurring, how could these users decide to host a stranger, or stay with a stranger?
2.I like this give and take system, where the users host, but they are also granted that favor back as a guest when they are traveling elsewhere. With the rise of fuel surcharges and other costs of the traveling, it makes sense that the travelers are eager to save as much money as possible in other aspects. I think as a guest too though, feels comfortable staying at someone's house, for they cay say "but you can also stay at my place when you come visit!"

So to experiment this first safety point, I have searched for 5 profiles with their full names, then looked for them on facebook and messaged them and also sent them friend requests to see how they react.
My messages were:
"Hello, my name is Yuta Sakane and I am interesting in meeting up with you because I am going to ....(the city they live in)"

Are they going to add me or not?

We will see.



*SONG OF THE DAY // "My Humps" by Black Eyed Peas**