1. Amber Case:
We are all cyborgs now
http://www.ted.com/talks/amber_ca
se_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.html

2. Key words
• Cyborg
• Anthropology
• Awkward
• Paleontology

3. Questions
Are you a cyborg?
What’s the definition of ‘cyborg’?
What do you think we can get along with
technology that must be achieved much more?

4. 1. Are we Cyborgs!?!?
Of course,
we are not RoboCop, Terminator or Cyborg009…
BUT…
We are always connecting to computers or
cellphone devices as an extension of our body.

5. 2. Look at anthropology
(the scientific study of people, their societies,
cultures and etc.)
"Oh, now we're a new form of
Homosapiens, and look at these
fascinating cultures, and look at these
curious rituals that everybody's doing
around this technology. They're clicking
on things and staring at screens."

6. Connecting to technology is….
a physical modification of self
to extend our physical selves, go faster, hit things
harder, and there's been a limit on that.
now
not an extension of the physical self, but an
extension of the mental self
look at the inside of your computer
• if you print it out, it looks like a thousand pounds
of material that you're carrying around all the
time.
• if you lose that information, it means that you
suddenly have this loss in your mind, that you
suddenly feel like something's missing, except
you aren't able to see it.

7. 3. You have a second self
Analog – Digital
 Facebook, Twitter and other SNS
timeline means your online self
Problem
Young have to go through
two awkward age.

8. 4. Time and Space have compressed
Wormholes (folding space and time) in your
pocket
a different type of time on every single device
ex. every single browser tab gives you a different
type of time
we can dig things that we‘ve lost on our analog
brains by devices carrying in our pockets
Ambient intimacy

9. ex. we're not always connected to everybody
but
at anytime / to anyone
we can connect by digital devices.
possibility…
people aren't taking time /aren't slowing down
and stopping for those who are around them
are trying to compete for their attention on the
simultaneous time interfaces

10. Quotations
‘technology doesn't just get
adopted… It gets adopted
because people use it and
it's made for humans.’
‘it(=technology) ends up being
more human than technology,
because we're co-creating each
other all the time.’

11. Images’ attributions
• Image 1 RoboCop :http://goo.gl/zXP9z
• Image 2 twitter: http://goo.gl/gyihD

12. Thank you!