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Cyborg Anthropology and the Future of the Interface A Short Introduction

Amber Case ICISTS-KAIST’11Contact: case@caseorganic.com

we are all cyborgs

an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new ambient spaces”

1. cyborg:

Flickr: cybertoad

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Flickr: soylentgreen23

Flickr: cybertoad

^ Univac 1 - 1950’s

iPhone - 2000’s >

traditional anthropology

cyborg anthropologyFlickr: futurestreet

macy meetings - anthropologists and scientists discussing humans and technology in 1941.

cyborg anthropology launched as a sub-discipline of anthropology at AAA in 1992

I. Present DayII. Growing up CyborgIII. The Future

I. Present Day

Flickr: soylentgreen23

HyperlinkedMemories

persistentpaleontology

the automaticproductionof space

simultaneous time

self reflection

Junksleep

devicesand their discontents

Prostheticsand their discontents

Privacy in PublicSpaces

Flickr: GenoDM

Temporarily Negotiated Private Space

Time and SpaceCompression

Shrinking Map of the World by David Harvey, 1989

shortest distancebetween 2 points

technosocialwormholes

ambient intimacy Leisa Reichelt

Flickr: piet_musterd

psychologicaleffects

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II. Growing up Cyborg

Infants have a virtual self before they are even born.

this is yoursecond self

Maintenanceof the second self

presentation of self in digital life

Second selves become actual selves

Socialgrooming

Level Ups

+1 Friend+1 Follower

psychologicaleffects

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slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2@padday UX at Google

technosocialtrainingwheels

Flickr: piet_musterd

Work and Play

Reality isn’t always fun

Reality isn’t always fast

Reality is +5 points!

Reality is 5 stars!

Accelerated Rewards

Work is just badly designed game play.

– Patrick Meyer

Analog backyard

Digital backyard

Bullying doesn’t end when school is over.

Kids are training for their future world

A community that increasingly transcends time and space.

So what’s next?

III. The Future

The Internet is not a machine

Calm Technology

• Calm technology • Actions as buttons• Invisible interfaces

Interface Evaporation

Your cell phone should become a remote control for reality.

Proximal Notification

GeonotesLeave messages for your future self!

Reducing Actions

When you check in to your house, your lights turn on!

When you leave the house, your lights turn off!

The best technologyis invisible

It should get out of the way and connect people.

The most important part of technology is the interface.

Today the most important thing is design.

Design is reducing the time and space between need and satisfaction.

See you in the future!

Amber CaseEmail:

case@caseorganic.comWebsite: caseorganic.comTwitter: @caseorganic

Q+A.

Amber CaseEmail:

case@caseorganic.comWebsite: caseorganic.comTwitter: @caseorganic