The New Age of Technology Enhanced IntimacyA collaboration between Strategic Foresight @University of Houston and OCAD University

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Project Team

Zahra Ebrahim @zahraeb

architextinc.com

Karen OikonenOCADU

Research & Design

Heather Schlegel @heathervescent

heathervescent.com

Carl Hastrich @bouncingideas

bouncingideas.combridgeable.com

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“ Emotional Literacy is made up of ‘the ability to understand your emotions, the ability to listen to others and empathise with their emotions, and the ability to express emotions productively. To be emotionally literate is to be able to handle emotions in a way that improves your personal power and improves the quality of life around you. Emotional literacy improves relationships, creates loving possibilities between people, makes co-operative work possible, and facilitates the feeling of community.” - Claude Steiner

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The current belief is technology is driving us apart, increased isolation, informal relationships formulate by false friendships on social networks, distancing us from each other.

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Is there an alternative to the status quo?

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UME is the global resource for connecting people. With over 25 years of experience, UME began by curing social disabilities and has never slowed in their efforts to connect individuals with true and open experiences.

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EMP-CONNECT EMP-CONNECT is a bio-patch that integrates your personal physiology with technology that you control directly, allowing you to experience the feelings of those around you, and share your world experience to those who care about you.

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> Wang Xiu Ying announces empathy technology she successfully developed to be used for Aspergers patients.

> The Canadian Institute of Health Research announce awards for scientists investigating the positive health impacts of emotional connection and empathy.

> Cameron Tufnell (co-founder of UME) announcement about leaving Canadian military research results in controversy: this notorious weapons researcher has been seemingly hit by altruism. Announces his family has hereditary Aspergers.

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> Huge technological advances are made in encrypting private information when broadcast publicly.

> Social concern for “oversharing” now being researched as a potential physiological disorder.

> A beta tester opens up their EMP- FEED and shares emotions with anyone that signs up. Thousands of people tune into this person’s experience. The launch of radical emotional transparency.

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> Canadian Government releases alarming news that fragmented families are the social norm. The Canadian Institute of Health Research announces new funding for researchers focusing on “healthy connections” that bring families back together.

> Property Developer Fred Dumo creates a UME community in North Vancouver, where all individuals must have embedded empathy technology. This ensures a neighborhood of only the financial elite and “good people who understand one another”.

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> The EMP-CONNECT early adopters are sports athletes with integrated monitoring technology included for coaching staff. PGA Tour won by Xing Pang who credits EMP-CONNECT for “just in time” advice.

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> IN-LINE Ceremonies replace weddings.

> UME encounters religious pushback: seen as interfering with “higher connections” to God.

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> EMP-CONNECT Surgery patients recover faster. There is a surge in post-op children with EMP-CONNECT caretakers and nurses.

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> Couple die in house fire while IN-LINE: don’t hear fire alarm.

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> Primary school rejects any students without EMP-CONNECT.

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> People with UME dominate positive headlines in education, politics, and healthcare.

> Open Government is enhanced as EMP-CONNECT is used to engage the public with political processes.

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Thank you.

Zahra Ebrahim @zahraeb

architextinc.com

Karen OikonenOCADU

Research & Design

Heather Schlegel @heathervescent

heathervescent.com

Carl Hastrich @bouncingideas

bouncingideas.combridgeable.com

UME website: http://www.heathervescent.com/ume#techimacy