...WOFIE...

warning: don't waste your time reading this.

I've already told you about the WOFIE 2008 (workshop for innovation and entrepeneurship), the compulsory workshop we are taking during this week, from nine to four, without lunch break. The point is that what at the beginning sounds like shit, today has turned out to be a great thing.

I'm in a group with three people from Power electronics and drives and one Urban Designer (thank godness that she came today... she is the only one who understands me). There is a guy who guides us through different steps and pushes us forward, so that we deal with one task at a a time. Our problem statement is the following one: "How do we improve virtual experiences?"

OMG...! Yes, virtual hugs, make people meet in a "place", share feelings, transmit smell, touch and taste via internet... whatever (this is for you Ane, yunouworaimin)

Anyway, I've spent the whole day argueing! And I did not realise that I really miss it! I like discussing things, and in the group I feel very comfortable. We don't agree in anything, but that is the cool thing. Furtheremore, we are having crazy ideas, the most out-of-the-box thought you could have and we are trying to develop them, although we know it is impossible (btw, impossible is nothing). The level of abstraction is humongous. But who cares. Nobody will evaluate us afterwards. So we are allowed to do what we want to!!!

My groupmates have almost killed me. It was too much. We've been talking about TELEPATHY for three hours. They were saying that we could make people communicate by using it. OK, I can agree on that. Some people may have the ability for it. But what if a customer wants to use our system and can not? How are we going to do it? (-"yesterday you were telling me not to be so narrow-minded and now you are complaing about my abstraction level?".- a groupmate told me. Yes but, come on!!! telepathy is nothing. where is it? how do we control it? so if we can communicate without physical supports... great! this is the end of the "Age of Telecommunications". Welcome to the Telepathy Age!). Who is going to finance all this shit? Is it ethical to read other people's mind? ufff, neat discussion.

But the great question comes now: can we call telepathy to a man machine communication? WTF. What are you talking about? Please, if somebody reads this, support me. OK, I can hardly say that there are people who have the ability to use telepathy. But can an object connect your brain and send feelings? Of couse yes, if they send waves of the same amplitud that you can interprete. But of course not! Can you contact a bottle of water and share thought with it? Does it have any thought at all? What are you going to "talk" about? Hi, hi, how are you? I'm ok. But I don't know if I feel half empty or half full, can you help me?..." So I say, I'm sorry but that does not exist. But who knows it? It took its time to realise and admit that the earth is rounded... wowowow. Well, anyway, if we want to communicate with not living elements... then it is not called telepathy....

And three hours like this. Without agreeing in anything. Somebody loves (yes, loves) the word and needs to use it, but noooooo! I can not use the word telepathy for that!

I'm becoming crazy... But it's fun! It had helped me to forget about the excavator and use the brain in a free way.

No constraints, no limitations, no marks, no pressure. Enjoy it.

Please, Go to bed!!!