meditation and the modern cyborg - bgeeks conference keynote, boulder, colorado
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Meditation and the Modern Cyborg
Amber Case BG Conf 2012 Boulder, CO
@caseorganic
we are all cyborgs
an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new ambient spaces”
cyborg:
Flickr: cybertoad
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Flickr: soylentgreen23
Flickr: cybertoad
Univac 1 ~1950’s ^^ iPhone ~2000’s >>
traditional anthropology
cyborg anthropology Flickr: futurestreet
ambient intimacy Leisa Reichelt
Hyperlinked Memories
Persistent Paleontology
Nick Rodrigues Email Garden, 2011
Panic architecture
Prosthetics and their discontents
Prosthetics and their discontents
Nick Rodrigues
I was okay with all of this…
Until this
I needed to sleep. ���
���I needed to sleep. ���
A lot. ���
And it reminded me of something
Insomnia at age 4
Shutting down the brain
Watching my dad’s computer + processes
Just like a computer (shut down)
Sometimes it failed
First nightmares (order to chaos)
Then: disk defragmentation
Disk Defragmentation
Fragmentation in Daily Life
Information Junk Food
My Brain Today
I became a Skinnerian Rat
Intermittent reinforcement
Self Reflection
Loss of the ability to mentally defragment
Mental Defragmentation Memory compression and sorting
Derek Zumbach ���Alpha Wave Synchrony���
Feedback Machine
Quantified Self
Of all of the newest technologies for finding friends or dating. "I have many friends, I have a wife" at the
end of it all, the person I know least about is myself.
- Jon Lebkowsky
Example: The SIMS
Example: Harvard Happiness Project
Making the Invisible Visible
Example: ���Aaron Parecki’s ���
GPS Map of Portland
Approaching awareness ���
with technology
Kids are totally and completely aware
Calm Technology Mark Weiser
• Calm technology • Actions as buttons • Invisible interfaces • Trigger-based
interactions
Haptic Compass http://www.sensebridge.net
Haptic Location
Real-time location-based gaming slideshare.net/caseorganic @caseorganic
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mapattack.org
The best technology���is invisible ������It should get out of the way and connect people.
No longer this.
This!
Conclusions and Future
Making the invisible visible
