W3 Reading

As in 21 century, technology in different areas have been developed in to a very high level, smart phone, computer, internet etc. However, as all these technology have been developed, there is another thing that developed as the time past, and that is the vocabulary. Million years ago, human find out the “magic” about communication, about language, and start using them to show feelings. And after all these years developing, nowadays, a simple word may have a completely different meaning compare to past. As what Raymond Williams said in the book, the real developments of meaning, at each stage, must have occurred in everyday speech well before they entered the written record. This is the limitation of recoding meanings into a dictionary or any historical account. People have to keep changing their mind about these vocabularies, because the meanings of these words are changing as well. Using “old mind” to face the “new meanings” will limited our thinking ways.

Computer is very common in normal life now, and smart technology help us calculating or solving problems that we faced in designing. So what is computation? Simply, computation means a technology that helps the designer to make the conceptualized in designer’s mind become true or become possible. It is good to use computer to display our ideas, because using visual to describe what in our mind is the straightest way and computer can help us calculate all the necessary calculations with no errors. It also provides a framework about the design to help us understand even further about the design work.