Media Life Human Machine Convergence ICMI 2015
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Human beings have always had a complex relationship with technology. While technology allows for new capabilities, it is ultimately created by and reflects humanity. This document discusses how technology has developed over time, from early predictions that machines could one day dominate the world, to the idea that technology is not separate from humans but rather an extension of ourselves, and that embracing technology means embracing our own nature. It also notes how media and technology can impact our identities, sense of belonging, emotions, and social structures.
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Media Life Human Machine Convergence ICMI 2015
- 1. Media Life Inleiding Mediacultuur I 03 Human + Machine #medialife #IMCI
- 3. “Technology is not the nameless other. Technology 'R' Us: to embrace technology is to embrace, and face, ourselves. This we must do, and fearlessly” David Cronenberg in 1997
- 4. artefacts
- 15. “The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants” Samuel Butler in 1863
- 16. activities
- 21. identity
- 23. feeling/passion
- 24. arrangements
- 38. 1816
- 39. 1839
Editor's Notes
- readings: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” (1839) & E.T.A. Hoffman's “The Sandman” (1816) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/used_up.html http://germanstories.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e.html
- readings: Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Man That Was Used Up” (1839) & E.T.A. Hoffman's “The Sandman” (1816) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/used_up.html http://germanstories.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e.html
- "[t]echnology is not the name-less other. Technology 'R' Us: to embrace technology is to embrace, and face, ourselves. This we must do, and fearlessly."
- http://www.murraycs.co.uk/e-nableblog/2015/8/9/team-unlimbited-is-created 3d printed arm
- eyeborg
- approved verichip in 2004, implantable RFID, now used to detect stuff inside the body (tumors, breast implants, and so on)
- Epidermal electronics He may have had a laser in his watch and a radio in his lighter, but even James Bond didn't sport gadgets tattooed to his skin. Now he could, thanks to the development of ultrathin electronics that can be placed on the skin as easily as a temporary tattoo. The researchers hope the new devices will pave the way for sensors that monitor heart and brain activity without bulky equipment, or perhaps computers that operate via the subtlest voice commands or body movement. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6044/838.abstract August 2011, Science
- braingate 2006 https://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2013/02/wireless Feb 28, 2013 In a significant advance for brain-machine interfaces, engineers at Brown University have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable brain sensor that has performed well in animal models for more than a year. They describe the result in theJournal of Neural Engineeringand at a conference this week. http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/first-wireless-implantable-brain-computer-interface-works-monkeys-humans-could-be-next Brain-computer interfaces that can translate thoughts into actions will change how stroke patients, paraplegics and other people with limited mobility interact with their surroundings. But so far, these devices have involved bulky corded equipment inside research labs, requiring patients to be tethered to a computer. Now researchers at Brown University have built the first wireless version. Like a cellphone embedded in the brain, their new implantable brain sensor can relay broadband signals in real time from up to 100 neurons.
- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligent-robots-could-pose-threat-future/
- Kurzweil technological singularity and Moore’s Law
- “To make a meaningful study of the use of the media, it is necessary to take different media into consideration, the media ensemble which everyone deals with today … The recipient integrates the content of different media” (349).
- http://whyiheartmymedia.wordpress.com/page/39/
- http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/14/living/feat-cindy-crawford-body/ Cindy Crawford body 2015
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/cindy-crawford-condemns-leaked-photos-from-marie-claire-shoot-as-stolen-and-malicious-10482305.html Russo released a statement after the picture went viral claiming the photograph was not an unretouched image of Crawford, telling ABC News it was a “fraudulent altered version" of his photograph. Crawford refused to comment publicly on the image after it was released, a decision affected by the positive reaction it garnered from women across the globe. “It was stolen and it was malicious,” said Crawford, “but there was so much positive reaction [to the image]. Sometimes, the images that women see in magazines make them feel inferior—even though the intention is never to make anyone feel less. So somehow seeing a picture of me was like seeing a chink in the armour. “Whether it was real or not isn’t relevant, although it’s relevant to me. I don’t try to present myself as perfect. It put me in a tough spot: I couldn’t come out against it because I’m rejecting all these people who felt good about it, but I also didn’t embrace it because it wasn’t real—and even if it were real, I wouldn’t have wanted it out there. I felt really manipulated and conflicted, so I kept my mouth shut.”
- http://pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/index.html
- Milo (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDvHlwNvXaM (VANAF 1:05)
- blade runner
- HAL 1968
- 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822 the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 Grave of E.T.A. Hoffmann, a famous German romantic author and composer. The inscription actually reads E.T.W. Hoffmann, because E.T.A. was just his pen name. Some rights reserved Taken in: Germany / Berlin / Berlin (show map) Taken on: September 24, 2008 Tags: Grabthar Sebastian Niedlich Berlin more »
- The Poe story explores what happens when we are made of media (hinting at perfection), the Data emotion chip explores what is human about humanity (hinting at imperfection). These examples also suggest that we associate ‘perfection’ with technologies and machines. Is this why expect them to (always) work? Do we copy/paste these expectations onto each other and the world we live (think about: nanotechnologies, bio-engineering)?
- http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/used_up.html