Is there a line between digital technology and real life? If there is, it has blurred beyond recognition and will likely disappear in the near future.
Ryan Mast wears many hats—filmmaker through Unitheo, programmer with AMQ Software, and student at Millersville University.
In this can’t-miss episode, the Lancast’s Daniel Klotz sits down with Ryan Mast, a Lancaster technologist who studies at Millersville University, programs in Flash for AMQ Software, and produces music and performance videos under Unitheo.
It’s the most intellectual discussion to date on this podcast. Daniel and Ryan address what it means when what we do online increasingly matters to our lives in the physical world. What does the future hold for us as users of technology and as human beings? How do we remain civilized in a heavily augmented reality?
In the second half of the episode, Ryan brings illumination to the question of why it’s so hard to put a finger on the nature of the dynamic between Millersville and Lancaster.
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Intro: “Top of the Hill” by Jamison Young, under a Creative Commons license
Outro: “Sonido para Logotipo” by BrunoXe, under a Creative Commons license
Break: “Devils and Dust” (cover) by Hiram Ring, used by permission
by BrunoXe
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I really, really appreciated the discussion about the dynamic (read: divide) between Millersville and Lancaster… Especially Daniel’s remarks about authentic community and how college-as-community is pretty much a joke. As a student at Millersville, I was pretty consistently involved in trying to uphold that kind of rhetoric… but I was pretty consistently disenchanted with it as well. Academic life as we know it simply is not suited for authentic community. And it’s sad but, despite the sincerity with which I’m sure some university administrators attempt to cultivate that sense of community, I just don’t really see it happening on a large scale any time soon unfortunately.
But I also agree with Ryan that there are always great things happening both in Millersville and in Lancaster, and opportunities do abound.
So yeah.
Ending ambivalence… nnnow.