January 11, 2011

Amber Case at TED: We are all cyborgs now


Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist who says that technology is evolving us as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives.

Amber Case studies the symbiotic interactions between humans and machines -- and considers how our values and culture are being shaped by living lives increasingly mediated by high technology.

1 comment:

Martin said...

I'd rather be borg