A really evocative video. The robot body is the transhumanist dream. What is interesting here is that the man is an unwilling participant, and by being having the robot body, by no longer being fully human he is stigmatized. His partner lives him. (Shades of the mutant debate in X-men). While the line between enhancement and artificiality is blurred, I… Read more →

Nice summary here Ben! I like how you have identified the tensions of enhancement portrayed in this clip. So, technology is viewed as beneficial when it overcomes our inability to do something, but at what stage does that go too far and begin to encroach on our ‘humanness’? Where do we draw the line between enhancement and artificiality? Is that… Read more →

Thanks for the feedback Jeremy, really useful and I will definatly take foreward the comments on the lifestream. By defining ‘us’, I guess I am referring to a natural human organism without any technological enhancements, however, with the advancements in bio-technics and acceptance of prosthetics within society, this term is now up for debate. Also, as humans and technology evolve… Read more →

This is a super week 1 summary Ben. I’m really glad you raised these notions of utopia and dystopia, so different and opposed, yet aligned in the sense that they are driven by technology. These rather extreme options seem to often be the only way we can talk about the future, but I wonder if technological change is a bit… Read more →