User:FluffyDunlop/Proposal

Research in to implementing old technology within our modern society

INTRO In our society we are constantly searching for the newest, fasted and perhaps prettiest way of using and designing new technology. By making things thinner, faster and more beautiful we discard our “old” technology faster. A mobile phone has an average life of 2 years and we are focussed on getting a better model after these years. What about old technologies? Are we skipping ahead to fast and are we forgetting these technologies? This research is there to create a toolset to re-implement old technologies in modern society. Can old communication devices help us in creating a safer and unsupervised communication network? How much energy do we safe by using old technology to fulfil our daily needs? Can we recycle old devices into functionally nature friendly objects?

There are a lot of subjects to research but this proposal is made to show some of these examples so the reader has a toolset to find their own implementations of old technology.

PREVIOUS PRACTICE

Essay on the TB-303 (Roland, 1983) Introduction (synopsis): In 1982 The Roland Corporation made a bass guitar simulation synth, the tb-303. The machine sparked an unpredicted wave of music and has a long history of being used / misused and reinvented. Within the evolution of the machine towards the current status in 2014 with the official release of a new version by Roland, the tb-303 has been the focal point of big following in the electronic music scene. It is important to understand what kind of influences the machine has and has had within this period. So this essay is dedicated to the history and future of the machine. With examples of how the machine was used / copied / emulated and involved in current music environments, the wiki will show an in depth story about the machine and its history future. http://anycolouryoulike.nl/CMO/Index.html

THE LARGER CONTEXT

To be continued