Posts Tagged ‘ Daniel Suarez ’

Augmented and bot-mediated reality

June 13, 2012
By

While Google’s  Project Glass has recently generated quite a stir with the possibilities of augmented reality, the idea is not exactly new.  In the 1990’s MIT Cyborgs carried around huge backpacks stuffed with computer hardware to remain connected to the digital world via their clunky screen-goggles. Sherry Turkle, an MIT researcher herself, discusses them in an article entitled “Always-on/Always-On-You: The Tethered Self,” which analyzes how augmented reality transforms human interaction into a world in which people are ensnared in round-the-clock digital social networks. Yet the official description for the Google’s Project Glass is just as optimistic as Turkle’s analysis is cynical: We believe technology…

Read more »

Tags

Democracy Now