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?
!
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