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ANNONCER: [09. marts 2005]
Interview
COLONEL og en af de indiske it-guruer
4 til COLONEL
COLONEL er draget til Indien for at finde Software Happyness. Hvad dét er, hvorfor
han staver det med "y", og hvorfor det lige er Indien, han er taget til, kan du -
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What is "software happiness"?
It is software happyness (with an y) not software happiness.
The word happiness has been abused by the people in advertising and
other brainstormers (film instructors included), so I like to make that
mistake to not use a word THEY murdered
Happyness is a word free of the cliché from publicity, or dramaturgy, a
word that can be filled up with warm mysterious illogic content far away
from what THEY want me to feel when I hear or see that word.
Colonel's questions
Software happyness
It is the title of the project.
It is the dream, the intention,
the title of the utopia:
Make magic software that makes people happy
(Like Asterix drank the magic portion)
It is a way to point out the question: Does computers contribute to our
happyness or is this project an impossible goal from the start, an absurd
one.
The road to the software happyness is the answer to the question, based
on this double, evidence:
1) We (all) spend our life in front of a computer (telephone include) 2)
We are also all looking for happiness.
Can these 2 facts match or not? Personally I believe in it, the software
happiness, we have to, there’s no way back.
The idea to make software happyness is a project to point out that
question
It is like, when I organized "Barnvogn-løb " (a race for carriage with
babies around the lake) the utopist goal was to make friends as an
active immigrant in Østerbro. I did not succeed to make friends, but I
pointed out how it difficult it is to make friends as an immigrant in
Denmark. So the goal gives the form to the project and the content as
well.
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3. By looking for something I show what’s happen on the road.
By trying to make a software happyness I put up the question:
Computer + human = ?
Tell me, why did you travel to Bangalore?
Bangalore is now more important that Silicon Valley, it’s where all the
computer programmers are. A town specialized in software development.
Bangalore is the symbol of the new world.
(800 000 people are working with the new technologies in Bangalore)
The town is filled up with "informatics campus like Cyber Park or
Electronic City.
All the big world companies are there (Siemens, Philips, and Oracle,
Microsoft, Intel...)
Bangalore is THE world example of a town developing with the new
technological economy.
The other high motivation for going there, is that Bangalore is in India.
India is also a kind of symbol for people searching for values (spirituality,
happyness, enlightenment)
Bangalore is the place to solve the two contradictory thinks software and
happiness.
Indian Software engineers are "specialists" of both questions; the
happyness one and the technological one.
Bangalore was the obvious choice for my research.
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4. Did you succeed in developing an artificial happiness?
Yes, I succeeded in my research of Happyness with the computer as a
vehicle.
What is happiness anyway?
Like I mentioned before Happiness is a word that has been misused and
has no content for me anymore.
Happiness is an empty form, a hijacked value (like many other words...
democracy, identity, art.... to name a few)
Happyness with " y " is a catalyst word that, the more you will write,
speak and think about it, the more it will take a form - a common shared
form.
Happyness is a downloading process including doubts, emotionsand
fragility.
It is an open source moment of illogic existence!
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