Tutorial Task 10

To create a tetrad, and discover insights into any human technology whatsoever, we have to consider the following questions:

Enhance: What does this medium enhance or amplify?

Obsolete: What does this medium make obsolete?

Retreival: What does this medium retrieve from the past, that was previously obselesced?

Reversal: What does this medium reverse into, or, flip into, when pushed to extreme?

Mobile Phone

Enahances-It extends the voice

Reverses-If pushed to exreme a phone might engender a need for solitude

Retrieves-A phone allows a sense of community

Obsolesces-It makes telegraphs unnecessary

E-learning
Intensifies multimedia presentation as a form

Renders printed training material as obsolete

Retrieves many elements of training

Is reversing itself into a blended approach for greater flexibility