Human and technology

Digital representation of the world - The digital world model is a revolutionary phase in the human evolution, establishing the species of homo representans digitalis:

I think that this evolutionary phase lets people express themselves to a wider audience. The media technology also gives us the tools to be able to do this in a easier way.


Evolutionism - How homo representans digitalis (the digitally epresenting man) can have developed from earlier species:

I think this species developed when humans started to embrace new media technology and integrated it into their everyday life.


Extended body - Are we cyborgs Is there a difference between cyborgs and the technologically extended body:

The term cyborg is by me still a very philosophical question, some people may se them selves a cyborgs through use and intigration of technology. Others may only see technology as a new kind of tool.


Extended mind - The more the consciousness of man must have changed with digital representation. What would change if we could install a computer under the skin and connect it with the brain:

I think that the human would be able to process more information if one could implant a computer under the skin. The ability to store memory such as thoughts and knowledge and later access them would greatly increase.


Represented body - Will the layer of the brain develops in the future with the media age?:

I think that humans will have to develop the brain to some extent to be able to embrace what media technology provides us with. I think we can se this in older generations who don’t accept technology as we do today.


Represented world - What difference does it make to be able to extend the representation to paper or digital means:

I think that being able represent something to the world in some sort of solid form gives us a chance to leave a mark in time. The things we put down on a paper or a digital format becomes a capsule of information to be shared with the rest of the world in a solid form and unchanged.

Socially extended body - Housing as collective skin:

I think that housing as collective skin may very well be seen as a socially extend of the body because I se my home as an outer shell of myself. And I think that people strive to represent their homes as reflections of themselves.


Holistic view - Opposes the view that mind, body and technology are separate but interact. Holistic view: The body, mind and the technological extensions as one and the same system. What does interaction mean then:

I think that a system on its own interacts with different parts of it self at different times. So in that sense there is still interaction within itself. If I se my body as the complete system of the holistic view my brain still tells the different body parts what to do. And the different parts of my body give information to the brain depending of what they do.