Cognitive Engineering

There seems to be an ever-growing list of examples that reminds us we are living through an age of nostalgia for past media. Black and white photography, vinyl records and the iPod Classic are all experiencing renewed popularity, but what can we put this down to? In this week’s podcast, we discuss future nostalgia. What are the technologies and media we will feel nostalgic about in the future and are they simply a reflection of current limitations and imperfections? We discuss The Commitments, hauntology, 90s website revivalism, artificial intelligence language models, and share some of our predictions for future technology nostalgia. A few things we mentioned in this podcast: - Brian Eno on technological imperfections https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/649039-whatever-you-now-find-weird-ugly-uncomfortable-and-nasty-about - Steam: Into the Breach https://store.steampowered.com/app/590380/Into_the_Breach/ - John Cage’s 4’33” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4 - CGI from The Mummy Returns https://w