- The whole point of this past semester was to answer this question for ourselves. After 15 odd weeks of discussion and project trial and error, I think I finally have it. We were told that a blackbox is an unseeable process, one that if revealed, could describe the truths and intricacies behind a organization, invention, system, etc. That makes no sense so I'll give an example; when you look at a new car you see the final product, but you are blind to the thousands of hours of conceptualizing, problem solving, production and manufacturing that it took to create this finished piece. All of this unknown information is the blackbox of this car. What we were challenged to do in class, once we grasped this concept, was to find a way to actually reveal what's in any one blackbox. The funny thing is, there is no way to fully reveal a blackbox, since the viewer or revealer will only be able to observe the process; they are unable to emphathize since they were not there.