Remoto controle

O livro de Michael Fox e Miles Kemp ajuda a pensar que o design informacional na web está pré-controle remoto e precisa avançar para além do controle remoto.

"Clearly corporate and cultural interests also played important market-driven roles in the development of interactive architecture. These were extremely important as they directly involved the users out in the real world, however they were not integrated with the earlier theoretical architectural concepts of interactivity. In the 1950s, widespread developments were taking place in environmental control systems within buildings as a direct derivative of the introduction of sensors with remote signaling allowing for a central control room. (Kolokotsa et al 2004) The invention of “remote control” also came along at this time, enabling the user to assume a larger role as an operator of objects in space. The 1960s saw an evolution of system control and management where the control room turned into a hardwired control panel with the capacity to record information and alert users of problematic parameters. Mahesh Senegal points out two diametrically opposed perspectives that prevailed at this time: that of a life defined by pragmatic convenience, and that of a life controlled by the machine whereby the users become dependent upon their environments. (Senagala et al 2006) While both perspectives still survive today to some extent, we have come to embrace every new technology with the promise (perhaps illusionary) of convenience, but for the most part, without the fear.

The 1970s signaled a turn towards a promise of environmental efficiency, when architects sought to justify technology that could improve building performance and consequently save money. Energy management systems were introduced as well as microprocessors but, for the most part, the architecture world had yet to embrace the promises of such technologies from an interactive standpoint. The 1980s, however, perhaps stirred by the introduction of the personal computer, heralded a shift in user thinking or outlook whereby the connotations of “enslavement” began to be replaced by “empowerment”. (Sengala et al 2006) The PC became the interface that replaced the central console control, distributed direct digital control replaced conventional control systems, and communication could be programmed to take place on local area networks. Such developments also clarified the problems of integration, whereby many non-communicative independent protocols hit the market for individual products at the same time.

A new need consequently arose to standardize the methods by which different types of hardware could communicate with one another; this, however, was not satisfied, as the issues surrounding integration are proprietary and economically very valuable. What happened then is that many non-communicative independent protocols hit the market for individual products at the same time."

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