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Amber Case

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Amber Case is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Civic Media Group at MIT Media Lab. She's been exploring how tech and media both enhance and diminish our lives as sentient beings — and "how we can use technology as a tool, not have it use us." I listened to her talk on Calm Technology at work this week, and I really enjoyed hearing her break down the limits (to say the least) of the algorithm, the ignorant bravado of many tech entrepreneurs, and a variety of other prescient issues. I hate the term "must watch," but ... I recommend this.

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Calm Tech Institute

Amber Case just announced her new project, the Calm Tech Institute. It’s got a lofty goal (encouraging and implementing calm technology design principles in various bits of technology that we use, all the way down to creating a service mark for tech that adheres to the principles), and she’s a leading expert on the topic (she’s been talking about this stuff for a long time, and also wrote the…

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Andy Clark - What is Extended Mind?

What does it mean to claim that the mind extends beyond the brain in some meaningful way? Can objects in the external environment, such as a computer or even...

#CyborgAnthropology - Amber Case argues that we have to focus on the use of technology in order to extend our mental selves, and not only our physical ones. This reminds us of the #ExtendedMind Thesis, by #AndyClark and #DavidChalmers. Andy Clark describes this thesis to @closertotruthtv.

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We are all cyborgs now

Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, 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. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves.

#CyborgAnthropology is the study of how technology changes what it means to be human. According to Amber Case, as #Cyborgs we are increasing our humanness, and our ability to connect with each other, regardless of geography.

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“The most interesting people are calm and collected. They understand the long-term versus the short-term, and they build things slowly. The real world takes a long time.”  Amber Case for Offscreen Magazine

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マーク・ワイザーが提示した"Calm Technology"のその先を提示してくれる論客として、Amber Caseには引き続き注目したい #ambercase #markweiser #calmtechnology

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Amber Case: “O celular é o novo cigarro: se fico entediada, dou uma olhada nele. Está nos escravizando”

Há sete anos alguém disse que a socióloga norte-americana Amber Case (Portland, 1987) vinha do futuro para nos contar em que poderíamos nos transformar se nos deixássemos seduzir, sem reservas, pela tecnologia. Foi depois de uma palestra TEDx que Case, também definida como ciberantropóloga, chamou a atenção para como os humanos estavam deixando coisas importantes demais nas mãos da tecnologia. A…

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