In this episode, a conversation about our concerns about where technology takes us back to issues raised in some of the earliest episodes as we talk about the duality of “online” and “offline” and whether our concerns are rooted in technology or society. Also, perhaps a little late, a conversation about why Google Glass was such a bomb.
Download and Show Notes: Mindful Cyborgs: Cyborgian Promise, Cyborgian Perils
From the course description for the MIT Media Lab class “Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition”:
Topics will include:
-Stage Illusion as Information Display
-The Neuroscience of Misdirection
-Magical Warfare: Camouflage and Deception
-Magic Items and the Internet of Things
-Computational Demonology
-Ritual Magick as User Experience Design
Full Description: Dan Novy’s site
(via Cat Vincent)
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