the social cyborg: from perfect memory to networked consciousness
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This talk was presented at BlinkBL-NK V to a great audience. Details here: http://blinkbl-nk.com/2010/07/07/blinkbl-nk-v/TRANSCRIPT
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The Social CyborgFrom perfect memory to networked consciousness
kevin lim • @brainopera • 21.07.2010
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Are you in the business of trading experiences?
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I’m intrigued by
reality.
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How do we tellthe FULL story?
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What makes one medium “more real” than another?
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Is reality better from outside in?
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Is reality better from inside out?
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What aboutConsensus Reality?
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A good artistic visual expression of autopoiesis is Escher's 'Drawing Hands'.
- John David Garcia
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The two complementary hands can draw each other, but one hand cannot draw itself. - John David Garcia
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What does oursocial ecology
look like?
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then I started to realize
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...merge my physical and virtual realities.
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...so I try the “high road”
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First Person Shooter - Cinéma vérité
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Snow Crash’s Metaverse
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Cyberpunk thriller: Strange Days (1995)
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Steve Mann: First Known Cyborg
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Justin Kan (justin.tv)real-time, socially augmented experiences
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Gordon Bell of Microsoft(memory prosthetic)
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How did I go about it?
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The Digital Divide in terms of video media literacy (Stavchansky, 2006)
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Small cheap storageLightweight sensors
Ubiquitous wireless networksBetter information retrieval
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1 hour of video on a DVD = 2.5 Gbytes
Average # hours lived = 600,000 hours
Total number of bytes is approximately 1500 Terabytes (~1.5 x 1015 bytes)
Michael Lesk (1999)http://www.lesk.com/mlesk/ksg97/ksg.html
Personal (Visual) Experience Storage Requirement
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How do I search past experiences?
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Omron face detection
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Emergent Affordances...
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memory prosthetic
ambient intimacy
crowdsourcing
self-awareness
security
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