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This is the problem that may happen when technology is placed in museums, because they feel the given technology is part of the art piece itself they don’t want to touch it or disturb it. | This is the problem that may happen when technology is placed in museums, because they feel the given technology is part of the art piece itself they don’t want to touch it or disturb it. | ||
Maybe we are not totally afraid of these two, technology and nature, rather we show respect to the living organism and technology, but what happens with wearable technology? Many people have treated themselves as cyborgs, some examples may be Steve Mann or Neil Harbisson. They both have helped themselves enhance | Maybe we are not totally afraid of these two, technology and nature, rather we show respect to the living organism and technology, but what happens with wearable technology? Many people have treated themselves as cyborgs, some examples may be Steve Mann or Neil Harbisson. They both have helped themselves to enhance their senses and some people have rejected them thinking “it is not natural”. In the case of Steve Mann, he was once assaulted in a McDonalds in Paris because he was wearing a system called EyeTap, this system is a pair of glasses which the employees from this food chain tried to tear apart from his head. I guess we live nowadays with paranoia and we are still afraid of what we don’t know. But if you think about it, we know nothing about nature, we know nothing about technology. There is a general knowledge that people claim to be familiar with but the individual knowledge is something else, not all of us are familiar with our natural environment nor the technological environment. We are afraid of the unknown. | ||
What would happened then if we had to choose between technology and nature? | What would happened then if we had to choose between technology and nature? |
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