Dehumanization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization #Augmentation
Dehumanization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization #Augmentation
The dehumanization of the city: the car and the invasion of public space:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277008105_The_dehumanization_of_the_city_the_car_and_the_invasion_of_public_space #Augmentation #Infrastructure
Aggressive Drivers See Cyclists as ‘Less than Human’: #Augmentation
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/28/study-aggressive-driving-is-linked-to-seeing-cyclists-as-less-than-human/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847818308593 http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847818308593
The Betrayal by Technology - A Portrait of Jacques Ellul
Last year, Alibaba's graphic design tool helped 200,000 enterprises to design 6 million banners for singles day: It produced 8000 different banners per second:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-luban-ai-based-graphic-design-tool_594294 #Generative #Augmentation #Automation #Design
All the meditative aspects of photography have moved to post-processing. In such a world, training with an analog camera is not a bad idea. (via vakibs)
Conversational Programming:
http://www.agentsheets.com/Documentation/windows/Reference/conversational_programming.html #ML #Augmentation
"When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu
"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." - Confucius
Augmentation systems should be more like Bicycle Training Wheels and less like Cigarets: Tools should enable humans & communities to be less and less depended on them over time. The majority of current Augmentation / ML tools, cause complex life-long dependencies & addictions.
Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. SyntheticTelepathy
The Army Wants AI to Read Soldiers’ Minds":
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2019/04/army-wants-ai-read-soldiers-minds/156147/ Cognitive chimera states in human brain networks: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaau8535
“Soldiers having no physical, physiological, or cognitive limitation will be key to survival and operational dominance in the future.” “ the next frontier was inside of our own selves” - Michael Goldblatt, DARPA #Military #Augmentation
"Oral History of Steve Mann": 1h interview with the #Augmentation pioneer.
Augmentation Technology can not only be used for human performance enhancement - but the very same tech can be used for targeted performance degradation at scale. As the cost of war is dramatically dropping, we must resist mindless hype & contemplate such questions earnestly.
So much talk of "empowering" creatives & artists with ever more complex machine learning "augmentation tools". While that's fun, If you really care about empowering creatives, design social systems that *pay creatives real living wages*. Automation won't provide that.
Harnessing Organizational Knowledge for Machine Learning: #ML #Augmentation
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/harnessing-organizational-knowledge-for.html
"Douglas Engelbart's Symposium - The unifying vision" - talk by @TheTedNelson:
OrCam MyEye 2. #Augmentation #VR
Bicycles in Berlin are a good example of failed technology infrastructure planing. The gov is massively pushing bike sharing & access. Yet, they did not invest in Bike Lanes & other city planing measures such as Car reduction (DE car lobby too strong). The result? Dangerous Chaos.
When designing new technologies, it's tempting to analyse them in isolation - a grave mistake. All tech lives in a complex web of other tech, people, animals, infrastructure, history etc. All tech has positive effects (augmentation) and negative effects (amputation).
What many don't seem to get about "Augmented Reality" (AR), is that the glasses are really just a detail. The name of the game will be Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) - with and without consent.