"Whenever a car drives a Kilometer, society pays 89 cents. In comparison, the bike has the best cost-benefit factor of all means of transport: Due to its positive health effect, society gains 26 cents per km"
"Whenever a car drives a Kilometer, society pays 89 cents. In comparison, the bike has the best cost-benefit factor of all means of transport: Due to its positive health effect, society gains 26 cents per km"
Miguel Nicolelis - The Future of Human Augmentation:
Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it (2015)
Brain-controlled, non-invasive muscle stimulation allows chronic paraplegics to walk:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-brain-controlled-non-invasive-muscle-chronic-paraplegics.html
These images nicely show the effects of Technology: While the car augmented our ability to move, it amputated critical aspects of human behaviour/culture and destroyed urban spaces.
From "5 Types of Terrible Drivers, Driver’s Ed Manual, 1955": https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/5-types-of-terrible-drivers-a-dossier-from-a-1955-drivers-ed-manual #Ideas #Augmentation #Technology
Designing Nature - talk by Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (The Conference 2018)
Resurrecting the Sublime: https://www.daisyginsberg.com/work/resurrecting-the-sublime
Scientists create mind-controlled hearing aid: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/15/scientists-create-mind-controlled-hearing-aid "could transform ability of hearing-impaired to cope with noisy environments"
Umberto Eco proposed two models of reader/audience: one interested in the story, and one in the narrative strategy. We alternate between the two mindsets all the time.
The quintessential criticism of augmentation systems - as expressed by a Zen Monk:
"The Urgent Need for Christian Transhumanism" - by Micah Redding
5 Types of Terrible Drivers: A Dossier from a 1955 Driver’s Ed Manual: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/5-types-of-terrible-drivers-a-dossier-from-a-1955-drivers-ed-manual/ #Technology #Augmentation #Urban
Hacking the Cyborg - Can collective intelligence save us from self-destruction?
http://www.urbz.net/articles/hacking-cyborg
Livewire: Against Automation, Against UBI, Against Capital:
https://itsgoingdown.org/against-automation-against-ubi/
Always On - Technologies that mediate the self heighten consciousness, but that doesn’t mean they are empowering - by L. M. Sacasas: https://reallifemag.com/always-on/
#Augmentation Technology #Culture
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” - Marshall McLuhan
Borg Complex: A Primer - by L. M. SACASAS (2013):
https://thefrailestthing.com/2013/03/01/borg-complex-a-primer/
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear blinders - by Nicholas Carr:
http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8557 #Technology #Augmentation #Culture #Media
In his books Empire and Communication (1950) and The Bias of Communication (1951), the Canadian historian Harold Innis argued that all communication systems incorporate biases, which shape how people communicate and hence how they think. These biases can, in the long run, exert a profound influence over the organization of society and the course of history.
Is there an overarching bias to the advance of communication systems? Technology enthusiasts like Kelly would argue that there is — a bias toward greater freedom, democracy, and social harmony. As a society, we’ve largely embraced this sunny view. Harold Innis had a very different take. “Improvements in communication,” he wrote in The Bias of Communication, “make for increased difficulties of understanding.” He continued: “The large-scale mechanization of knowledge is characterized by imperfect competition and the active creation of monopolies in language which prevent understanding and hasten appeals to force.” Looking over recent events, I sense that Innis may turn out to be the more reliable prophet.
"Google filters out serendipity in favor of insularity. It douses the infectious messiness of a city with an algorithmic antiseptic." https://longreads.com/2014/09/30/your-inner-drone-the-politics-of-the-automated-future/ #Augmentation #Technology
The World Is Not the Screen - talk by Nicholas Carr: