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Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles
Practitioners and scholars explore ethical, social, and conceptual issues arising in relation to such devices as fitness monitors, neural implants, and a toe-controlled computer mouse.
Body-centered computing now goes beyond the “wearable” to encompass implants, bionic technology, and ingestible sensors—technologies that point to hybrid bodies and blurred boundaries between human, computer, and artificial intelligence platforms. Such technologies promise to reconfigure the relationship between bodies and their environment, enabling new kinds of physiological interfacing, embodiment, and productivity. Using the term embodied computing to describe these devices, this book offers essays by practitioners and scholars from a variety of disciplines that explore the accompanying ethical, social, and conceptual issues.
The contributors examine technologies that range from fitness monitors to neural implants to a toe-controlled mouse. They discuss topics that include the policy implications of ingestibles; the invasive potential of body area networks, which transmit data from bodily devices to the internet; cyborg experiments, linking a human brain directly to a computer; the evolution of the ankle monitor and other intrusive electronic monitoring devices; fashiontech, which offers users an aura of “cool” in exchange for their data; and the “final frontier” of technosupremacism: technologies that seek to read our minds. Taken together, the essays show the importance of considering embodied technologies in their social and political contexts rather than in isolated subjectivity or in purely quantitative terms.
Contributors: Roba Abbas, Andrew Iliadis, Gary Genosko, Suneel Jethani, Deborah Lupton, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael, Marcel O'Gorman, Maggie Orth, Isabel Pedersen, Christine Perakslis, Kevin Warwick, Elizabeth Wissinger
Body-centered computing now goes beyond the “wearable” to encompass implants, bionic technology, and ingestible sensors—technologies that point to hybrid bodies and blurred boundaries between human, computer, and artificial intelligence platforms. Such technologies promise to reconfigure the relationship between bodies and their environment, enabling new kinds of physiological interfacing, embodiment, and productivity. Using the term embodied computing to describe these devices, this book offers essays by practitioners and scholars from a variety of disciplines that explore the accompanying ethical, social, and conceptual issues.
The contributors examine technologies that range from fitness monitors to neural implants to a toe-controlled mouse. They discuss topics that include the policy implications of ingestibles; the invasive potential of body area networks, which transmit data from bodily devices to the internet; cyborg experiments, linking a human brain directly to a computer; the evolution of the ankle monitor and other intrusive electronic monitoring devices; fashiontech, which offers users an aura of “cool” in exchange for their data; and the “final frontier” of technosupremacism: technologies that seek to read our minds. Taken together, the essays show the importance of considering embodied technologies in their social and political contexts rather than in isolated subjectivity or in purely quantitative terms.
Contributors: Roba Abbas, Andrew Iliadis, Gary Genosko, Suneel Jethani, Deborah Lupton, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael, Marcel O'Gorman, Maggie Orth, Isabel Pedersen, Christine Perakslis, Kevin Warwick, Elizabeth Wissinger
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288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 24, 2020
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Isabel Pedersen
4 booksIsabel Pedersen is Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media, and Culture and Associate Professor at the Ontario Tech University.
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November 21, 2020
A estas alturas me sorprende que haya logrado terminar siquiera un libro en el 2020, pero este lo leí por algo muy personal y muy específico.
Me encanta porque es una genuina colección crítica de pensamientos actuales y proyecciones futuras sobre el movimiento de dispositivos encarnados (¿incorporados?), que aplica muy bien a todo lo que he vivido de primera mano con las oportunidades y problemas que ha presentado el internet como lo conocemos hoy en día. Los dispositivos «wearables» están a nada de cruzar la última línea, la piel, nuestro cuerpo, y sin duda nosotros como sociedad no estamos preparados en ningún aspecto para ello.
Personalmente me llevo partes muy específicas y mucha tarea, pero me quedo con el último capítulo sobre «tecnosupremacismo». Combina mucho de lo que he leído en auténticas distopias de ciencia ficción, con nuestra realidad, y presenta uma visión algo futil, pero bastante humana y sincera.
Muy recomendable a cualquier persona interesada en interacción humano (¿cerebro?) computadora.
Me encanta porque es una genuina colección crítica de pensamientos actuales y proyecciones futuras sobre el movimiento de dispositivos encarnados (¿incorporados?), que aplica muy bien a todo lo que he vivido de primera mano con las oportunidades y problemas que ha presentado el internet como lo conocemos hoy en día. Los dispositivos «wearables» están a nada de cruzar la última línea, la piel, nuestro cuerpo, y sin duda nosotros como sociedad no estamos preparados en ningún aspecto para ello.
Personalmente me llevo partes muy específicas y mucha tarea, pero me quedo con el último capítulo sobre «tecnosupremacismo». Combina mucho de lo que he leído en auténticas distopias de ciencia ficción, con nuestra realidad, y presenta uma visión algo futil, pero bastante humana y sincera.
Muy recomendable a cualquier persona interesada en interacción humano (¿cerebro?) computadora.
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