Wallet-The usage is to protect my personal needs and personal materials.
Duotangs-The duotang’s importance is that it organizes and stores my important work and provides extra space for extra needs. The duotang provides extra storage when my binder is full.
Fountain pen- The fountain pen is important for writing and providing an emergency writing utensil when my laptop is unavailable.
The Notebook provides a critical importance for allocating the information collected from various classes.
The laptop is essential for school as a lot of assignments are online and handed online. The need for the laptop, previously mentioned, is school.
- How might these items (artifacts) be considered “texts” and what do they say about you, the places you inhabit, the cultures with which you engage, and/or the activities you take up?
Within the bag, there are two items that are texts. The two items are the Asus laptop and fountain pen. The biggest item is the Asus laptop. The Asus laptop explains the technological aspect of my life and the technological culture I live in. The Asus laptop infers my understanding and knowledge of technology and also explains how it is needed every day. It also shows my preference for easier contact with others and those around the world. Whereas the laptop provides an essential aspect to communicating with others through a quick and painless process, the fountain pen emphasizes the importance of expression. Handwriting with a fountain pen(or any other writing utensil) outlines the emotions and broadens the message to be more personal and important. The important of writing messages is that is shows emotions and now just words.
How do you imagine an archeologist aiming to understand this temporal (short/brief) period might view the contents of your bag many years in the future?
If an archaeologist examined and analyzed my bag many years from now, they would view the contents with low expectations. Societal expectation far into the future would have to be more than one device. Also, seeing how technology is increasing and handwriting is decreasing the future is more likely to have minimal stationaries and more technologies. Through the bag, they would also notice my bag contains a lot of stationary items and one technological device. This discovery would create a hypothesis that even though technology is abundant it is not as accessible.
- If this was found in the future, what would the contents (items/artifacts) of your bag speak to about the civilization, culture, society, you have lived in.
In the future, where technology is heavily advanced and diverse in option, the contents in the bag would express the limited progress society achieved from that year from now. Upon searching and analyzing my bag a key difference would be the fountain pen. The fountain pen would infer that the usage of a writing utensil is still prevalent and used by many. Another key difference would be the wallet. In the future technology is going to be so advanced that cash would become more accessible and environmental. As accessibility and the environment becomes an objective in the future, the idea of a wallet would be considered unpractical and un-environmental. The future would also replace the wallet with technology and e-transfers instead of paper money and handheld wallets. Since the future would be more sustainable, the future archeologists would analyze and suggest that the past was environmentally unfriendly and very inaccessible.
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- What would this same bag have looked like, say, 5 or 10 years ago?
5 to 10 years ago the backpack contained more stationary items, such as pens, pencils, and notebooks than technology. The lack of technological devices represents how computers and assignments through computers were still a testing concept. Essays and lab reports were not handed in through the laptop. A digital copy was unheard of unless the circumstances proven otherwise that handing an assignment by hand was imminent. The bag would have also contain no masks or other covid unique items, since the virus only came into full effect during 2020, the contents in the bag would weigh less.