After assembling most of our artifacts it was time for the Project Labs. It was vital for us to get contrasting perspectives and feedback on the idea of the brain chips. As we collected our feedback it was clear that not many people were willing to conform to a lifestyle where brain chips were mandatory. This made us look at the flaws in the system which we were proposing.

It personally also made me look at the flaws in my own designing of the comics as they were not as effective in conveying the ideas I wanted them to convey. We got feedback from tutors about how this technology might already exist and to think more about how we were yet to look at this scenario from a speculative way of thinking, to do that I decided to look at this book called “The age of surveillance capitalism” by Shoshana Zuboff, which explains how surveillance capitalism is profiting from analyzing behavioral data and is on the verge of dominating our future.

The major flaw in our work was, the fact that we had designed a product which was not creating an impact in any way, it was not taking systems of care into account and, most importantly, it was not touching upon mental health and its significance, something which we all felt strongly for. Hence we decided to change our idea a little, and design a product which is actually for good and will genuinely make lives of the people using it better, which is when we came up with the idea of BUD, an non-invasive ingestible pill which monitors health through the gut, which had a very positive reception in our final presentation.