Podcasts
TED Radio Hour – Are Our Devices Turning Us Into A New Kind Of Human? (September 11, 2015)
Anthropologist Amber Case says our technology is changing us into cyborgs. She argues we have become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of Homo sapiens.
Interview with Amber Case - mui Lab's Exhibition at Milan Design Week 2022 (May 25, 2022)
mui Lab had an interview with Amber Case about the concept of the showcase at the Milan Design Week. Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and a writer of the book “Calm Technology” published in 2015.
INBOUND Bold Talks: Amber Case "Calm Tech: Designing for the Internet of Things" (November 30, 2015)
Amber Case is an entrepreneur and researcher helping Fortune 500 companies design, build, and think about connected devices.
Designing Calm Technology with Amber Case (May 3, 2024)
Technology shouldn’t require all of our attention, just some of it, and only when necessary. The difference between an annoying technology and one that is helpful is how it engages our attention.
#96 - Building Calm Technology and Organizations with Amber Case (March 18, 2024)
We rarely (if ever) get to host a cyborg anthropologist on our podcast, so we are thrilled to have Amber Case join us as a special guest for this episode.
Video: La tecnología tranquila - menorca al día (December 4, 2019)
Amber Case presented her vision of the union between technology and human beings at Innovem Fest 2019.
Keynote: Designing Calm Technology — Amber Case (August 1, 2021)
Our world is made of information that competes for our attention. What is needed? What is not? We cannot interact with our everyday life in the same way we interact with a desktop computer.
Amber Case - An Introduction to Calm Technology (November 6, 2018)
CyborgCamp Portland 2018: Designing Calm Technology, our world is made of information that competes for our attention. What is needed? What is not? We cannot interact with our everyday life in the same way we interact with a computer.
NEXT Conference: Amber Case - Designing Calm Technology (September 21, 2018)
Our technology demands our attention. We lack control over it. It stops us losing a sense of time. Amber Case tells the NEXT18 crowd how to reclaim calm technology.
Team Human: Amber Case “Calming Technology” (Ep. 58)
What is a robot? Are robots our friends? Does the term “friend” even apply? In this episode, Amber Case discusses how algorithmically programmed systems of automation and control might just be turning us into the robots. Her book, Calm Technology: Design for the Next Generation of Devices, proposes another way—flipping the script on systems that compress and atomize our every move.
TED: We Are All Cyborgs Now (January 11, 2011)
Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of Homo sapiens.
