The Social Cyborg: From perfect memory to networked consciousness

The Social CyborgFrom perfect memory to networked consciousness

kevin lim • @brainopera • 21.07.2010

Are you in the business of trading experiences?

I’m intrigued by

reality.

How do we tellthe FULL story?

What makes one medium “more real” than another?

Is reality better from outside in?

Is reality better from inside out?

What aboutConsensus Reality?

A good artistic visual expression of autopoiesis is Escher's 'Drawing Hands'.

- John David Garcia

The two complementary hands can draw each other, but one hand cannot draw itself. - John David Garcia

What does oursocial ecology

look like?

then I started to realize

...merge my physical and virtual realities.

...so I try the “high road”

First Person Shooter - Cinéma vérité

Snow Crash’s Metaverse

Cyberpunk thriller: Strange Days (1995)

Steve Mann: First Known Cyborg

Justin Kan (justin.tv)real-time, socially augmented experiences

Gordon Bell of Microsoft(memory prosthetic)

How did I go about it?

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The Digital Divide in terms of video media literacy (Stavchansky, 2006)

Small cheap storageLightweight sensors

Ubiquitous wireless networksBetter information retrieval

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

How do I search past experiences?

Omron face detection

Emergent Affordances...

memory prosthetic

ambient intimacy

crowdsourcing

self-awareness

security