Good summary here Ben, and your lifestream in general is shaping up nicely. I like that you have lots of comments feeding in, and this really helps to surface the discussions that are happening around the blogs – nice work. Two things that you could build on here are: 1. more commentary on the specific lifestream content each week, and… Read more →

Hello! I know this is kinda off topic however , I’d figured I’d ask. Would you be interested in trading links or maybe guest writing a blog article or vice-versa? My blog addresses a lot of the same topics as yours and I believe we could greatly benefit from ach other. If you happen to be interested feel free to… Read more →

Thanks for the comment, some key questions here, but ones which are very difficult to answer at this stage. There is a lot of speculation around ‘preserving’ mental processes through technology and ‘brain training’. from Comments for Ben’s EDC blog http://ift.tt/1zIGThW via IFTTT Read more →

There was a recent book review in the Guardian (http://ift.tt/1y6g6Jc) that touched on this. Assuming that our memory can be ‘trained’, and a quick search on Google Scholar supports this hypothesis, then I agree with you that our memory capacity is suffering. But, is this a bad thing if we are able to enhance an ability through technology? Or, thinking… Read more →

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 →