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Childlike thinking

Its already the mid of first term. omg. And things, rather than calming down, seem to be speeding up. Thankfully, the theory-based subject - Communication Revolutions, is catching my fancy. I started out feeling so out of my depth with this subject. However, as it went on, I began to see the link between this subject and the Honours project. They both involve thinking in the abstract domain. I find myself recognizing the train of thought I used to have as a child. 'How can the thoughts of a child be the same as an Honours student?' Is what you might ask; Well, just like when you first experienced the world in your younger years, You had no conception of categorizations, of subjects, of what should be labeled as logical, and what constitutes as artistic. The world was one big formless blob and everything was interlinked in your mind. Teachers were in the same category as creatures. Candy was the same as Pills. Communication Revolutions requires such a mind. Looking at things wit...

Help from Adrian

Things cleared up alot after speaking to Adrian. My project is much more focused now. It will be about Advertising in the Web 3.0, or if found to be more useful. I might work on Advertising in the virtual world. After thinking about it. I think this direction is definitely useful to my future career path. Adrian has helped me with thinking about the execution of my theory. Which could be just describing a fictional future of the adscape and how Advertising works in that framework. I personally think a master at this is acclaimed author - Neil Gaiman. I loved his ability to describe fictional postulations in the book Smoke & Mirrors Most of you will know Neil Gaiman only as the author of Stardust As Adrian,my course coordinator was saying, "imagine a virtual world where viral ads could actually infect users' avatar." This got my head rolling into the possibilities of that area. My task would be to dream up an advertising arsenal of communicative weapons for the futu...