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	<s>Considering various publishers.</s> Update: In production. Will be available ~~May~~ 2011. [http://cyborganthropology.com/Store Get it here].		<s>Considering various publishers.</s> Update: In production. Will be available October 2011. [http://cyborganthropology.com/Store Get it here].
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	Immediate feedback. Rewards are faster than in real life. They show up faster. There is more of an adrenaline rush. Every social interaction and success becomes quantifiable. One can get mega points (when their content goes viral) or micro points for micro updates.. THis is the same reason why one is addicted to Farmville-like games.		Immediate feedback. Rewards are faster than in real life. They show up faster. There is more of an adrenaline rush. Every social interaction and success becomes quantifiable. One can get mega points (when their content goes viral) or micro points for micro updates.. THis is the same reason why one is addicted to Farmville-like games.

	====The Singularity===		===The Singularity===

	====Ambient Intimacy====		====Ambient Intimacy====

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	So they can't be expected to think of privacy, think of legal aspects, think of representing themselves in a responsible way. Versus on Twitter, where it just says, "Hey, look: It's public." And whatever somebody's public thing is, it's that. And you're not joining tons of groups on Twitter that can be looked at, or something like that. You have hashtags, and you can search people's timelines, and that data goes away after three days. It's really hard to search for. So Facebook is very different, in that respect.		So they can't be expected to think of privacy, think of legal aspects, think of representing themselves in a responsible way. Versus on Twitter, where it just says, "Hey, look: It's public." And whatever somebody's public thing is, it's that. And you're not joining tons of groups on Twitter that can be looked at, or something like that. You have hashtags, and you can search people's timelines, and that data goes away after three days. It's really hard to search for. So Facebook is very different, in that respect.

	~~===Future of Advertising===~~

	*AI will make for easier purchasing decisions, not by mechanizing recommendation systems by personal behavior, but by increasing communication of information between people. AI will automate the analytics needed to show which friends have matching profiles and interests, and will return a human-facing set of results that can be curated by the viewer.
	*language changes to become branded words. like Canterbury tales with access, tribes no longer geographically based, but socially based.
	*locked into increasingly detailed consumer purchasing decisions, more likely to buy the brand they their friends have because they are more likely to get help when things go wrong, interfaces fail, learning from prior uses and successes.
	*Good interfaces connect consumers to what their friends like, or cut through the complexity of purchasing decisions
	*It will no longer whether or not purchase, but what to purchase and when to purchase it. Decision timelines for single products will stretch out for years, plans and devices will become extremely important and central to one's lifestyle.
	*Good advertising will be entertainment that people will look forward to. Ads will involve characters who are platonic ideals - perfect renditions of something they cannot have in reality. Mascots will be friends and provide education.
	*self actualization will be promised through purchases. purchase decisions will become increasingly fractal, with purchasing layers inside of purchasing layers, stores inside of stores.



	~~===Future of Interfaces===~~

	~~A successful interface makes itself invisible. It gets out of the way and lets one live.~~

	~~Solid to liquid to air.~~

	Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life		Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

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	===Introduction===		===Introduction===

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	Thus, we might say that Facebook has a sticky participation architecture. Once in, it’s hard to get out. It’s one of the easiest, and stickiest, way to create a second self.		Thus, we might say that Facebook has a sticky participation architecture. Once in, it’s hard to get out. It’s one of the easiest, and stickiest, way to create a second self.

	~~We covered a lot of topics here.~~

	~~Let’s try a short scenario from the future.~~

	~~Non-visual augmented reality with SMS~~ and ~~GPS~~		The Internet as Playground and factory is the best phrase I’ve found to describe what’s going on in the virtual and physical worlds. Foursquare makes it so that every venue in real life has a point value. Yelp makes it so that every place is an experience that can be reported on and shared. Facebook and Twitter turn everyday interactions into historical text.

	A ~~successful interface makes itself invisible~~.		But each moment of play is also a moment of work. Each additional review, each status update, and every Foursquare check-in is work. Because it is fun, there is no friction to contributing. But it is still work. The Facebook database is updated by millions of unpaid workers every day, voluntarily contributing their content in order to receive responses and content and the release of oxytocin that comes with a community’s response to their contribution. The more one contributes to Facebook, the more information Facebook has on human interests and behavior. And the more information Facebook has on human interests and behavior, the more advertiser on Facebook pay for access to demographic data.

			Reality is boring. Waiting in line at the DMV suck. Real life takes time. Digital life is more instantaneous. In real life, the time and space between goals and accomplishments is often large. For some, it is physically impossible to achieve certain things, like purchasing a Ferrari or rising above middle management in their career path. Online gaming, especially sites like Farmville step in to take care of that void. Whereas one doesn’t have the money, time or room for a real garden, Farmville provides one without the back aching labor. All reality is replaced by small icons, and time is compressed so that goals and accomplishments are right next to one another. Everything has a point value and a reward. When real life takes so long to reward someone, online gaming is often a better and more enjoyable alternative.

			In the future, hybrid reality, or life which is both a game and real, might blot out the mild dystopia that we all live in. Or it will make us more intolerable of the space between reality. And for those who spend a lot of time in reality, Foursquare is a good add-on for making the mundane exciting. To be crass, one might say that Foursquare is kind of like dogs pissing on fire hydrants and having other dogs come along and sniff them to see who’s been there. The dog with the most potent urine is mayor of the fire hydrant.

			Some of the current hybrid reality games involve players getting +1 followers, and +1 likes. In an RPG, you might battle creatures with similar stats, or team with them. On Twitter, you might talk or argue with those who have similar stats. These stats are not new. They always existed in some form or another in real life. The Internet is not building these stats, but is making visible stats that people already have between each other. (See Paul Adam’s brilliant slides on this subject). The web also offers the opportunity for people in different geographies and times to connect with one another based on stats. In a reputation economy, one levels up or down after gaining or losing friends or followers. How much one levels up depends on the quality and actual connectedness of a friend or follower.

			When I think of reality and mobile technology gaming I often think of the Tamagotchi. The Tamagotchi was one of the first major virtual pets to hit the market. Since its introduction in 1996, over 70 million Tamagotchis have been sold. The toy is simple. Children and teens feed, train and clean up after a virtual pet through a few buttons on the screen. In return, the pet grows older. Teens took to the toys in school and became obsessive about maintaining them. Why? The virtual pet on the device exhibited signs of life – it had needs, grew, and died. Each of these aspects caused toy owners to become mentally attached to them, responding to the stimulus with the correct series of button presses.

			Real life relationships are complex. They must be maintained, or they fade away. The cell phone, like the Tamagotchi, is a virtual way to feed relationships. Friends may be fed by button presses, and looked after. A mobile phone cries, and it must be picked up and soothed back to sleep. When it runs out of battery power it must be fed. Because the mobile phone requires attention, it too resembles a living creature. Cell phones now live in our pockets and wake us up in the morning. They are our dashboards for interfacing with friends, family and appointments. They connect us to the database on which we now live.

			I think one of the best people in this field is Jane McGonigal. I’d highly suggest watching her talk on “Saving the World Through Game Design” from the 2008 New Yorker conference. or reading the paper she wrote on “i love bees”, an excellent massive alternate reality game with thousands of participants. Another great resource in this field is Mary Flanigan. She studies games and wrote a wonderful book called Critical Play that combines a view of games from 3,000 years ago, modern use of games in Art movements, and digital games.





			In the early 90’s Donna Haraway proposed what she termed a “cyborg anthropology” to study the relation between the machine and the human, and she adds that it should proceed by “provocatively” reconceiving “the border relations among specific humans, other organisms, and machines. But Haraway wasn’t the first to discuss Cyborg Anthropology. In fact, concepts of human and technological interaction have been seriously examined by anthropologists since 1942, with the initial focus being the use and effects of feedback. These discussions led to the Macy Conferences in the 1940’s and 50’s. These were no ordinary conferences. They were attended by academic and technological luminaries such as Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, John von Neumann and Norbert Weiner, inventor of the field of Cybernetics.

			Though Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” was published in 1991, it wasn’t until 1993 that the idea of a “Cyborg Anthropology” was formally proposed at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) by Joeseph Dumit and Robbie Davis-Floyd. Robbie’s interests were in human reproduction, which is one of the first fields that the study of cyborg anthropology was seriously applied to. If you think about it, the modern birthing process is extremely cybernetic. There are all sorts of machines that allow a doctor see what a baby looks like inside the womb. If a baby has a difficult time being born, a Caesarean section can be preformed with minimal risk to the mother. If a baby is premature, it can be hooked up to an incubator, the equivalent of an external cybernetic womb.

	People think about cyborg anthropology as something about the future. And it's not. We've already been Borged.		People think about cyborg anthropology as something about the future. And it's not. We've already been Borged.
	And people think about humans becoming more alien-like in the future. It's not like that. It's more about human beings being able to be whatever they are. Of course there's still the good and the bad. The struggle continues. But the one thing we've learned in the last 15 years is that the advanced things we think are highly technological are actually natural. The mechanics of networks are found throughout the world. All things really do want to be connected. Whether they're ladybird or highly developed organic systems.You can't have photosynthesis without connection and cooperation?		And people think about humans becoming more alien-like in the future. It's not like that. It's more about human beings being able to be whatever they are. Of course there's still the good and the bad. The struggle continues. But the one thing we've learned in the last 15 years is that the advanced things we think are highly technological are actually natural. The mechanics of networks are found throughout the world. All things really do want to be connected. Whether they're ladybird or highly developed organic systems. You can't have photosynthesis without connection and cooperation.


	People want to work together. Things want to work together. And matter wants to work together, because its job is made easier when its environment acts in a cooperative way. Whether it's whales singing across 2000 miles of liquid to join up and meet somewhere, or a few hundred interested individuals from all over the world attending an online webinar to discuss the		People want to work together. Things want to work together. And matter wants to work together, because its job is made easier when its environment acts in a cooperative way. Whether it's whales singing across 2000 miles of liquid to join up and meet somewhere, or a few hundred interested individuals from all over the world attending an online webinar to discuss the
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	===Future of Advertising===		===Future of Advertising===

			*AI will make for easier purchasing decisions, not by mechanizing recommendation systems by personal behavior, but by increasing communication of information between people. AI will automate the analytics needed to show which friends have matching profiles and interests, and will return a human-facing set of results that can be curated by the viewer.
			*language changes to become branded words. like Canterbury tales with access, tribes no longer geographically based, but socially based.
			*locked into increasingly detailed consumer purchasing decisions, more likely to buy the brand they their friends have because they are more likely to get help when things go wrong, interfaces fail, learning from prior uses and successes.
			*Good interfaces connect consumers to what their friends like, or cut through the complexity of purchasing decisions
			*It will no longer whether or not purchase, but what to purchase and when to purchase it. Decision timelines for single products will stretch out for years, plans and devices will become extremely important and central to one's lifestyle.
			*Good advertising will be entertainment that people will look forward to. Ads will involve characters who are platonic ideals - perfect renditions of something they cannot have in reality. Mascots will be friends and provide education.
			*self actualization will be promised through purchases. purchase decisions will become increasingly fractal, with purchasing layers inside of purchasing layers, stores inside of stores.



	===Future of Interfaces===		===Future of Interfaces===

			A successful interface makes itself invisible. It gets out of the way and lets one live.

	Solid to liquid to air.		Solid to liquid to air.
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	Immediate feedback. Rewards are faster than in real life. They show up faster. There is more of an adrenaline rush. Every social interaction and success becomes quantifiable. One can get mega points (when their content goes viral) or micro points for micro updates.. THis is the same reason why one is addicted to Farmville-like games.		Immediate feedback. Rewards are faster than in real life. They show up faster. There is more of an adrenaline rush. Every social interaction and success becomes quantifiable. One can get mega points (when their content goes viral) or micro points for micro updates.. THis is the same reason why one is addicted to Farmville-like games.

			====The Singularity===

	====Ambient Intimacy====		====Ambient Intimacy====

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	===Introduction===		===Introduction===

	When first faced with the term Cyborg ~~Anthroplogy~~, one's thougts might initially turn to obocop or Terminator. Though these ideas might be accurate, they generally come from popular culture, commonly held ideas by many people. The popular idea of the cyborg is one that is easily transmitted, and easy ~~concepturalized~~. It is an emotion or concept that may be stated in a single word or phrase, and in that light, it is successful.		When first faced with the term Cyborg Anthropology, one's thougts might initially turn to obocop or Terminator. Though these ideas might be accurate, they generally come from popular culture, commonly held ideas by many people. The popular idea of the cyborg is one that is easily transmitted, and easy conceptualized. It is an emotion or concept that may be stated in a single word or phrase, and in that light, it is successful.

	The idea of the cyborg was first proposed by Manfred Clynes in a 1965 paper on space travel called "Cyborgs in Space" describing an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments”.		The idea of the cyborg was first proposed by Manfred Clynes in a 1965 paper on space travel called "Cyborgs in Space" describing an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments”.
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	Based on this essay, and many other instances of needing a methodology to understand and describe rapidly changing sociocultural systems affected by technology, the idea of a “Cyborg Anthropology” was proposed at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1992 by Joseph Dumit of MIT and Robbie Davis-Floyd of University of Texas, Austin.		Based on this essay, and many other instances of needing a methodology to understand and describe rapidly changing sociocultural systems affected by technology, the idea of a “Cyborg Anthropology” was proposed at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1992 by Joseph Dumit of MIT and Robbie Davis-Floyd of University of Texas, Austin.

	~~One~~ of the ~~key points~~ of the ~~pape~~		The key purpose of the paper concerns the profound effect of technology on humanity. "From satellite communications to genetic engineering," the paper argues, "high technologies have penetrated and permeated the human and natural realms. Indeed, so profoundly are humans altering their biological and physical landscapes that some have openly suggested that the proper object of anthropological study should be cyborgs rather than humans, for, as Donna Haraway says, we are all
			cyborgs now".

			Robbie Davis-Floyd's most known research concerns reproduction and reproductive technologies. Reproduction is perhaps the most basic and easily explained example of the cyborgization of natural human processes. Instead of the natural process of childbirth, or the help of a midwife, a female giving birth generally enters herself into a hospital, where a series of technological processes are utilized in order to help her give birth. These mechanical and technological processes are applied well before the birthing process even occurs. Before the child is born, one can see inside the womb and understand whether the child is male or female, sick or well, abnormal or not. The idea of a ultrasound is a fourth dimensional method for seeing inside a formerly opaque surface. So many new technologies are applied during the birthing process that the the act of life itself is controlled by cyborgian methodologies. If you were born in a hospital, your birth was part male, part female, and part cyborgian. You were born as cyborg offspring.

			===Celebrity as Cyborg===
			Another example of cyborgization lies in the idea of the celebrity. A celebrity is simply a human being that has been reproduced by cybernetic technology. An image is reproduced by a camera, an external cyborgian eyes, millions of times over, and distributed by television, theater, internet and print until it reaches many. A single moment is multiplied to the eternalness of human civilizations.

			===Civilization and its Discontents===
			Our lives as modern humans are filled with external prosthetic devices. We cannot reach the Internet without an external interface helping us to connect. We use prosthetic every day; our phones, clothing, vehicles, knifes, overs, paper -- these are all prosthetic.

	In Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, he warned of "a possible future in which the magnificence of humans as prosthetic gods is tempered by the ill-fitting and troublesome nature of our auxiliary organs”(11).		In Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, he warned of "a possible future in which the magnificence of humans as prosthetic gods is tempered by the ill-fitting and troublesome nature of our auxiliary organs”(11).

	Novelist Mr. Marriott, who just finished writing the sequel to his 2008 novel “The Skull Cage Key,” says that “the acceleration of obsolescence is breathtaking”. He says that it makes it difficult to imagine the future for his ~~charactes~~.		Novelist Mr. Marriott, who just finished writing the sequel to his 2008 novel “The Skull Cage Key,” says that “the acceleration of obsolescence is breathtaking”. He says that it makes it difficult to imagine the future for his characters.

	Tim O’Reilly used the phrase "the architecture of participation" to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution.		Tim O’Reilly used the phrase "the architecture of participation" to describe the nature of systems that are designed for user contribution.

	The shape of a space affects how one can contribute – how one can represent themselves. Anthropologist danah boyd’s research on teens and social networks showed that there class differences between teens who stayed on MySpace and those who migrated from Myspace to Facebook. The difference was in how each network allowed one to present the self. On Twitter, one is represented by text. Status is open, and updates are controlled by the user. Facebook’s architecture morphs its users into a social structure of consumption and eavesdropping. A good software project or social network “can be seen to have a natural ~~architecture of participation”.~~		The shape of a space affects how one can contribute – how one can represent themselves. Anthropologist danah boyd’s research on teens and social networks showed that there class differences between teens who stayed on MySpace and those who migrated from Myspace to Facebook. The difference was in how each network allowed one to present the self. On Twitter, one is represented by text. Status is open, and updates are controlled by the user. Facebook’s architecture morphs its users into a social structure of consumption and eavesdropping. A good software project or social network “can be seen to have a natural [http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/architecture_of_participation.html architecture of participation]”.

	http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/articles/architecture_of_participation.html

	====All of our boundaries are blurring together====		====All of our boundaries are blurring together====

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