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October
31, 2003 |
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Book: Natural-Born Cyborgs by Andy Clark
Source: Oxford University Press 2003
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| This is my fourth morning of making
notes on this book. I hope to complete these notes for this book
this session. |
Yellow highlighted passages: Chap. 7 Bad
Borgs?
- "... The joys of the electronic trail and ubiquitous computing
suddenly pale against the threats of electronic tattling and
ubiquitous interference." [p 169]
- "The simple cell phone emits a signal that can act as a 'smart
badge' " [p. 170]
- "To a certain extent, at least, technology itself has the
potential to allow us privacy when we chose it." [p. 171]
- "The price of any islands of privacy and disconnection is
thus a reduction in the range of support and responses automatically
available." [p. 171]
- "Certain goods and services may also cost us more if we are
unwilling to share personal information with the providers,
but these trade-offs should be ours to choose." [p. 171 - 2]
- "... the software entities that adapt to you, learning about
your likes, dislikes, tolerance for detail, best times for
contact, and so on." [p. 178]
- "We really do need to pay closer attention to the many ways
in which new technologies may impact our social relations,
and our sense of ourselves and of others." [p. 179]
- "Connected by multiple feedback loops to the objects it designs,
the mind is also an object of design." [p. 179]
- NETFUTURE [p. 181]
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Realizing that there may be software on
one's computer that is sending information, without your awareness,
to third parties is disconcerting.
Who has access to the signals that your cell phone sends? I
have no idea!
The NetFuture web site is worth viewing. |
Yellow highlighted passages: Chap. 8 Conclusions:
Post-Human, Moi?
- "The human brain ... is poised for profound mergers with
the surrounding web of symbols, culture, and technology." [p.
197]
- "... our brains and bodies couple to new tools, yielding
new extended thinking systems." [p. 197]
- "... seeded long ago by the emergence of language itself,
the ratchets engage and teh golden machinery of mind-design,
mind redesign, and mind re-redesign, rumbles into life." [p.
197]
- "Human thought is biologically and technologically poised
to explore cognitive spaces that would remain forever beyond
the reach of non-cyborg animals." [p. 197]
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The fourth quote should be inserted into
my "Notation" paper for NCTM.
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