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Becoming Ubiquitous
Self-proposed Session by Flemming Funch - SHIFT 2008
Through thousands of years we've gotten used to seeing ourselves as one unit located in time and space. A human body, a consciousness situated in that body, a name, a profession.
But computer technology and communication technology has changed things. For a few hundred years you've been able to read books, participating in the experiences and the knowledge of people you've never met. Pictures and video have followed. You can talk with people across the world from wherever you are. And it is only becoming more rich and more complex. A growing portion of our lives takes place out in the interconnected network of people and ideas, and not where we physically are located.
The technologies we use are still somewhat fragmented and error prone. You can't quite count on them like you can count on your heart beating and that you remember how to ride a bicycle. Your internet connection might be down, your webhost might go bankrupt, Google might drop you from its index.
But we can imagine how things will evolve, where technologies become more dependable, consistently easy to use, and ubiquitous.
In step with that we're likely to develop a diferent kind of consciousness and a different sense of who we are. Technological communication channels might just be added perceptions. We might consider distributed intelligence as just another part of our mental faculties. We might get used to living our lives in more dimensions. We might think more like swarms than like separate individuals. We might become used to being ubiquitous.
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15 to 17 October 2008
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