Humanities in the age of digital technologyHugh Thaweesak Koanantakool

Hugh Thaweesak KoanantakoolPresident,

National Science and Technology Development Agency

การประชุมวิชาการระดับนานาชาติ เวทวีิจยัมนษุยศาสตร์ไทย คร้ังที่ 8

หัวข้อ “มนุษยศาสตร์ที่แปรเปลีย่นในโลกที่เปลี่ยนแปลง”

November 27-29, 2014, Imperial Mae-ping Hotel, Chiangmai, Thailand1

Humanities in the age of digital technology

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• What is the age of digital technology?• The new man (and woman)?• Issues for humanities scholars• Digital technology in the service of humanities

Agenda

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Digital age

What do we mean by the digital age? How does digital technology revolutionise our

world?

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Computer: then and now

ENIAC, 1943-1945 Made from3,000 switches, 18,000 vacuum tubes,

Power consumption174,000 Watts

30 tonnes

Multiplication in 0.0028 seconds,

Clock 0.1 MHz

Cost $500,000.

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Computer: then and nowIBM 7094 (1964)Mainframe Computer for Scientific Use

Made of transistors

Clock 0.5 MHz

Languages: FORTRAN, COBOL

Serves 100 simultaneous users via Teletype

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/7094-ibm.jpg

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Computer: then and now

A typical laptop computer (2012)Clock 2,000 MHz

Memory 4GB

Disk Storage 500GB

$1,300

30Watts

4000 Times the speed of IBM 7094 Mainframe

Graphics

Voice input, output capable

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Foolish Tech Predictions

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

At the dawn of the computer industry, nobody really knew where this new technology would take us. But the explosion of desktop computing that put a PC in nearly every American home

within 50 years seems to have eluded the imagination of most mid-century futurists.

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Foolish Tech Predictions

"Apple is already dead."Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997

To be fair, just about everyone in the computer business thought that Apple was in its death throes when Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold made this comment back in 1997.

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Who are they? Who are you?

digital natives digital immigrants digital fugitive

http://www.techlicious.com/images/phones/girls-smart-phone-398px.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/commercial/2011/12/1/1322739801708/Senior-Caucasian-couple-l-007.jpg

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http://thesocialmediatrainee.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/digital-natives-copy.jpg

Drawing made from the concept in “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”, Marc Prensky (c) 2001From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol 9, No.5, October 2001)

Born before 1980Born after 1980

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World Devices

http://heidicohen.com/wp-content/uploads/comScore_The_Digital_World-Smartphone-Tablet-Growth-2013-e1382316127998.jpg

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World Data Volume

http://www.tech-dynamics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/BigDataChart.png

1 Exabyte = 1 million Terabyte หนึ่งล้านล้านล้านไบต์1 Terabyte = 1 million Megabyte

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World Monthly Data Traffic

http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/06/Akamai-Internet-5.png

1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabyte หนึ่งพนัล้านล้านไบต์1 Terabyte = 1 million Megabyte

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Issues for humanities scholars

• speed• virtual reality• 3D copies• Augmented reality, telepresence

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“When a mistake was made, the only method to correct was to file off a fairly broad space of about 23 cm. so that a depression in the stone surface of about ¼ cm in the said space would not be easily discernible to the naked eyes.”

From the Archaeological Museum of Bagan, Myanmar

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Delete, Undo

http://www.boostsuite.com/2010/04/22/do-the-undo/

http://t0.gstatic.com/

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Demo – Virtual Reality 3D

http://www.thatveterinaryguy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Visible-Body.png

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3D scanner

http://www.assystbullmer.co.uk/images/3D-bodyscanning-image.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/11/skullscandm2511_468x424.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/19/article-0-19DD9E3E000005DC-635_634x409.jpg

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3D printer

http://3dprinterplans.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ATOM-3D-Printer-Taiwan-2.jpg

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3D printer

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQcAXgg0_87rHmBbm1baOnajIJrv7UQy2oL-xkyN6R9twT4NCgqeg

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Demo – Future Digital Displays

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Demo – Artificial Intelligence

Text to speech – Demo Voice recognition - Demo Finding information - Demo Solving complex problems – IBM Watson

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Demo – machine reading

朋友您好，為了你好，

เพือ่นรักสบายดี ปรารถนาให้สบาย請您坐好，用心聽好。

จงน่ังให้สบาย เปิดใจฟงัให้ดี

เงนิมากเงินน้อย พอกินก็พอสวยหรือไม่สวย สบายตาก็พอแล้ว

Today’s smart phones, smart appliances, and smart homes will seem simple in the coming age of digital connectivity, which will encompass and join vast geographies.

The digital world as we know it today will seem simple and rudimentary in 2025. If you think we’re electronically dependent now, you haven’t seen anything yet. Thanks to the prevalence of improved semiconductors, graphene-carbon nanotube capacitors, cell-free networks of service antenna and 5G technology, wireless communications will dominate everything, everywhere

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It's official: The machines are smarter than mankind, at least when it comes to Jeopardy.

IBM's Watson Supercomputer Defeats Humanity in Jeopardy

IBM supercomputer Watson has emerged victorious against its human competition in a three-day competition between the massively intelligent machine and two of Jeopardy's greatest champions: Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

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Digital technology in the service of humanities

Give voice to marginal groups Digital art Research tools Massive eLibrary (eBooks) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), eLearning Time-compression tools Crowd funding

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Digital Illumination by Monks

Goto website

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The arrival of spring painted on iPad by David Hockney (using an app called Brushes)

Digital Painting

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David Hockney at his exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2012,David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

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Massive e-Library, eBooks

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Demo - Time Maphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1sjHGODFHg

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Researcher advertises work

for crowdfundingvideo

http://mashable.com/2012/01/11/kickstarter-social-good/

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Digital Humanities - Takeaway• Our world has been transformed by digital technology.• Young people are digital natives! They are at ease with technologies.• Digital information is growing at a breathtaking rate. World data is

doubling every year, with back-up copies!!• Amazing tools are available, making old tools obsolete.• Many tools are useful for humanities:

– Digital arts– Digital preservations – 3D copies– Crowd funding, Crowd sourcing– Voice of the minority– Time compression of historic data

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