A Short Introduction to

CYBORG ANTHROPOLOGY

AMBER CASE WEBVISIONS 2009

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The study of the interaction between

humans and computers. How the capabilities of our

bodies are extended externally and uploaded into

hypertext.

LIQUID CULTURE

Hot Water Cold Water

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Here, talk about the escape velocity of data when there is too much of it on a hard drive (many photos, ect).

Here, talk about the escape velocity of data when there is too much of it on a hard drive (many photos, ect).

ESCAPE VELOCITY of DATA

DIGITAL PALEONTOLOGY

"And even as far back as early CS3"...we saw faster launching.

CS4 (11.0) Oct. ’08CS3 (10.0) Aug ’07CS2 (9.0) Apr ’05CS (8.0) Oct ’03

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.5.5 Mac, Windows Feb ’99

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.2.5 Mac Merlin Nov ‘92 2.0 Mac Fast Eddy June ‘911.0 Mac Feb. ‘900.63 Mac Oct. ‘88

0.63Macintosh

October 1988

1.0Macintosh

February 1990

2.0Macintosh

Fast Eddy

June 1991

■Paths

2.5

Macintosh

Merlin

November 1992

Windows

Brimstone

IRIX, Solaris

November 1993

3.0

Macintosh

Tiger Mountain

September 1994

■Tabbed Palettes

■Layers

Windows, IRIX, Solaris [1]

November 1994

4.0

Macintosh, Windows

Big Electric Cat

November 1996

■Adjustment Layers

■Actions (macros)

5.0

Macintosh, Windows

Strange Cargo

May 1998

■Editable type (previously, type was rasterized as soon as it was added)

■Multiple Undo (History Palette)

■Color Management

■Magnetic Lasso

5.5

Macintosh, Windows

February 1999

■Bundled with ImageReady

■Save for Web

■Extract

6.0

Macintosh, Windows

Venus in Furs

September 2000

■Vector Shapes

■Updated User Interface

■"Liquify" filter

■Layer styles/Blending Options dialog

7.0

Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows

Liquid Sky

March 2002

■Made text fully vector

■Healing Brush

■New painting engine

7.0.1

Mac OS 'Classic'/Mac OS X, Windows

August 2002

■Camera RAW 1.x (optional plugin)

CS (8.0)

Mac OS X, Windows

Dark Matter

October 2003

■Camera RAW 2.x

■Highly modified "Slice Tool"

■Shadow/Highlight command

■Match Color command

■Lens Blur filter

■Smart Guides

■Real-Time Histogram

■Detection and refusal to print scanned images of various banknotes[2]

■Macrovision copy protection based on Safecast DRM technology

■Scripting support for JavaScript and other languages

■Hierarchical layer groups

CS2 (9.0)

Mac OS X, Windows 2000 / XP

Space Monkey

April 2005

■Camera RAW 3.x

■Smart Objects

■Image Warp

■Spot healing brush

■Red-Eye tool

■Lens Correction filter

■Smart Sharpen

■Smart Guides

■Vanishing Point

■Better memory management on 64-bit PowerPC G5 Macintosh machines running Mac OS X 10.4

■High dynamic range imaging (HDRI) support (32 bit per channel floating point)

■More smudging options, such as "Scattering"

■Modified layer selection, such as ability to select more than one layer.

CS3, CS3 Extended (10.0)

Universal Mac OS X, Windows XP SP2 or later

Red Pill

April 16, 2007

■Native support for the Intel-based Macintosh platform and improved support for Windows Vista

■Revised user interface

■Feature additions to Adobe Camera RAW

■Quick Select tool

■Alterations to Curves, Vanishing Point, Channel Mixer, Brightness and Contrast, and the Print dialog

■Black-and-white conversion adjustment

■Auto Align and Auto Blend

■Smart (non-destructive) Filters

■Mobile device graphic optimization

■Improvements to cloning and healing

■More complete 32 bit / HDR support (layers, painting, more filters and adjustments)

■Faster launching

CS4, CS4 Extended (11.0)

Universal Mac OS X, Windows

Stonehenge

October 30, 2008[3]

■Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation

■OpenGL display acceleration in Photoshop

■Native support for 64-bit on Windows Vista x64

■Adjustments panel

■Auto-blending of images

■Masks panel

■Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow

■Content-aware scaling

■Better raw image processing

■Extended depth of field

■Dramatically enhanced color correction

■Auto-alignment of layers

■New file display options (tabbed document display and n-up views)

■New file management and workspaces with Adobe Bridge CS4

ACCESSThe future is lame. It is only accessible by 2 dimensional interfaces on slow machines.

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But increasingly...

2D is 4D.

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Now lets talk about...

PRIVACY

VALUE TUMORSThe dangers of unconstrained value creation

within an unstable ecosystem.

Facebook apps as unrestrianed value inside a systme.

apple store as a good example of a stable, curated ecosystem.

wordpress as one of the best exmaples of plugins developing outside an ecosystme and then being adopted back into the ecosystem if they prove themselves.

Facebook apps as unrestrianed value inside a systme.

apple store as a good example of a stable, curated ecosystem.

wordpress as one of the best exmaples of plugins developing outside an ecosystme and then being adopted back into the ecosystem if they prove themselves.

VALUE TUMORS

CRISIS AVERSION

A Short History of the Externalization of the

Mind

THE PROSTHETIC IMPULSE

Exteriorizing human functionality.

Less liability - multiple lifetimes in one human. Compression of time and space. On-demand body parts/extensions one can purchase, ready-made.

Less liability - multiple lifetimes in one human. Compression of time and space. On-demand body parts/extensions one can purchase, ready-made.

A market can be altered by co-creating objects by a dynamic feedback loop that gets smaller with each advance in microblogging communication methods. Consumers can talk directly to producer through Twitter. A/B testing on websites showed Zappos.com what its consumers liked or did not like over the years, slowly carving out a niche that was properly responded to.

A market can be altered by co-creating objects by a dynamic feedback loop that gets smaller with each advance in microblogging communication methods. Consumers can talk directly to producer through Twitter. A/B testing on websites showed Zappos.com what its consumers liked or did not like over the years, slowly carving out a niche that was properly responded to.

Attention online is an organization of energy, inlinks, movement towards something. systems with energy efficiency can get things done more quickly than others.

Attention online is an organization of energy, inlinks, movement towards something. systems with energy efficiency can get things done more quickly than others.

A possible future...

MULTIPLICITY OF PROSTHETICS

INTERFACE CULTURE

EARLY PROSTHETICS

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ADVANCED PROSTHETICS

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CURRENT PROSTHETICS

The technological devices that we interact with. Interfaces, objects we cooperate with to reach a goal.

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We’re all shedding materials

Shedding clothing, like trees do during the seasons.

We share our prosthetic impulse

with another creature.

One of the earliest forms of life to

develop the shell.

Trilobytes shed their eyes.

So do we.

Tinyurl, Tr.im, Bit.ly

CollectiveIntelligence

INDUSTRY

INDUSTRY

Space/Time

Univac I

(1951)

Hard Drive (Approx.

>10Megs)(1956)

v

Hard Drive (Approx. 500 Gigabytes) (2009)

World’s Smallest RFID Tag

THE FIRST COMPUTING

MACHINE WAS LARGER THAN AN

OFFICE

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THEN, THE COMPUTER WAS THE SIZE OF AN

OFFICE

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EVENTUALLY, THE COMPUTER FIT

INSIDE THE OFFICE.

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NOW, THE COMPUTER RUNS

OFFICE.

HUMAN LIMITATIONS

ADVANCED PROSTHETICS

DATA AGGREGATION

SOCIAL GRAVITY

SOCIAL GRAVITY

The idea of extra data.

80 Degrees 50 Degrees

History of the Future

Rossum’s Universal Robots (1921)

Stock Tickers

MEDIA BACKBONES

Geosynchronous Orbit

Geosynchronous Orbit

13,000 Satellites

Teleoperators

THE ‘STATUSPHERE’

Oh, Wow! Thing!

TRAINING WHEELS

Maintenance

Global Cell Phone Use

A History of Communication

In Africa, the talking drum is used by tribes for extremely long distance communication. extremely granular messages can be produced through the medium and be heard in other villages.

Twitter is the talking drum. Cell phones are the talking drum.

In Africa, the talking drum is used by tribes for extremely long distance communication. extremely granular messages can be produced through the medium and be heard in other villages.

Twitter is the talking drum. Cell phones are the talking drum.

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The Talking Drum

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Schizophrenia

THE TELEPHONE MADE THE WORLD VERY SMALL - You could stand on one side of it, whisper something, and be

heard on the other.

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You could stand on one side of IT, You could stand on one side of IT, whisper something, and be heard on whisper something, and be heard on

the other.the other.

You could stand on one side of IT, You could stand on one side of IT, whisper something, and be heard on whisper something, and be heard on

the other.the other.

MR. SWEIGERT

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The origin of the cordless telephone The origin of the cordless telephone

COMMUNICATION AND THE

SHRINKING WORLD

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Good Design Reduces Friction

Note that traffic does not have to exist in this way anymore. comparative lightness and simplicity of a 301 redirect can move a site from 1 place-another, cheaper than a highway.

Note that traffic does not have to exist in this way anymore. comparative lightness and simplicity of a 301 redirect can move a site from 1 place-another, cheaper than a highway.

The analoy world is full of friction. The analoy world is full of friction.

Traffic. Traffic. Traffic. 1.5 million dollar redirects. Lots of time and space to get from one place to another.

Traffic. Traffic. Traffic. 1.5 million dollar redirects. Lots of time and space to get from one place to another.

The level of friction in the digital world is far less. Innovating in a frictionless atmosphere makes things faster. Allows us to reproduce technologies and improve them faster than objects/organic objects take to evolve in real life.

The level of friction in the digital world is far less. Innovating in a frictionless atmosphere makes things faster. Allows us to reproduce technologies and improve them faster than objects/organic objects take to evolve in real life.

Ambient Findability + Life/Death

INFORMATION SOCIETY(1980)

As Post-Industrial Society

DIGITAL SELF ACTUALIZATION

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There is a difference between living in a pre-built analog environment and developing personal and communal digital space by ones own contributed information. (Masuda)

There is a difference between living in a pre-built analog environment and developing personal and communal digital space by ones own contributed information. (Masuda)

LIFE EDITINGMASUDA

In an information economy, the individual can use information for self-directed life editing or augmentation.

In an information economy, the individual can use information for self-directed life editing or augmentation.

Psychologists are paid to edit people’s lives. so are lawyers, doctors, and travel agents. each has a type of situated knowledge.

Psychologists are paid to edit people’s lives. so are lawyers, doctors, and travel agents. each has a type of situated knowledge.

RECONNECTING NON-PLACES

iPods, Cell Phones, Social Networks recontextualize the construction of space. Warping it.

PRESENTATION OF SELF

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CO-CREATION OF SELF (ANALOG)

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CO-CREATION OF SELF (DIGITAL)

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THE CO-CREATED CELEBRITY CYBORG

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A celebrity is not a single person, but rather, a network of interconnected structures that

influence its value.

SOCIAL NETWORKS AS VIDEO GAMES

Leveling up+1 Friend +1 Connection +1 Followers +1 Inlink

Serial Experiments Lain

VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

Steve Mann

Self-Portrait of Steve Mann

Wearable Computing Apparatus

1981

Steve Mann Wearable Wireless

WebcamDecember 13, 1994

Personal SousveillanceThe Art of Inverse

Surveillance

This T-Shirt is Watching You

DOWNLOADABLE HARDWAREThe future of contact lenses.

Affective Computing

Kelly Dobson

MIT

Haptic Storage and Retrieval

projectLily

Pad Arduino (2007)

Heelys Hack

(2007)

Smoking Jacket

Process Visualization

M-Dress (2007)

Culture tells us what it is okay to

like.

New culture is often shown to us through movies.

Thus, we now feel it okay to use a

computer interface with gesture recognition.

Because we’ve seen it in Minority

Report.

Here, Minority Report has given us the narrative that allows us to

collectively imagine a future.

Futuristic Bluetooth Bling

Liquid Interfaces Can Become

Anything

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The Tangible User Interface

The Absurd

Niche Markets

Collaborative Editing

COLLABORATIVEEDITING

Mapping

In the beginning, we had no idea what the new world looked like. We were still exploring.

There were many interesting creatures in this new world.

In the beginning, we had no idea what the new world looked like. We were still exploring.

There were many interesting creatures in this new world.

OPEN STREET MAPS

TREND PREDICTION

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DATA VIZUALIZATION

TheInfo.org - A site for large data sets and the people

who love them.

Kriesselog - lastgraph

- Your taste in music as a stream

graph

Social Mapping

Hans Rosling

EXPERTS

A Short Introduction to

CYBORG ANTHROPOLOGY

AMBER CASE WEBVISIONS 2009

@caseorganic