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1. The Social Cyborg
From perfect memory to
networked consciousness
kevin lim • @brainopera • 21.07.2010

2. Are you in the business
of trading experiences?

3. I’m intrigued by
reality.

4. How do we tell
the FULL story?

5. What makes
one medium
“more real”
than another?

7. Is reality better
from outside in?

9. Is reality better
from inside out?

10. What about
Consensus Reality?

12. A good artistic visual
expression of autopoiesis is
Escher's 'Drawing Hands'.
- John David Garcia

13. The two complementary
hands can draw each other,
but one hand cannot draw
itself. - John David Garcia

15. What does our
social ecology
look like?

18. then I started to realize

19. ...merge my physical and
virtual realities.

20. ...so I try the “high road”

24. First Person Shooter - Cinéma vérité

25. Snow Crash’s Metaverse

26. Cyberpunk thriller: Strange Days (1995)

27. Steve Mann: First Known Cyborg

29. Justin Kan (justin.tv)
real-time, socially augmented experiences

30. Gordon Bell of Microsoft
(memory prosthetic)

32. How did I go about it?

33. !
The Digital Divide in terms of video media literacy
(Stavchansky, 2006)

34. Small cheap storage
Lightweight sensors
Ubiquitous wireless networks
Better information retrieval

41. Personal (Visual) Experience
Storage Requirement
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

42. How do I search
past experiences?

46. Omron face detection

48. Emergent Affordances...

49. memory prosthetic
ambient intimacy
crowdsourcing
self-awareness
security