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N. Katherine Hayles, Katherine Hayles
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The title of this scholarly yet remarkably accessible slice of contemporary cultural history has a whiff of paradox about it: what can it mean, exactly, to say that we humans have become something other than human? The answer, Katherine Hayles explains,
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Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies: 31 October-1 November 1994, Boston, Massachusetts Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Terence K. McKenna
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High adventures of mind and body. "A cyclone of unorthodox ideas capable of lifting almost any brain out of its cognitive Kansas." from the foreword by Tom Robbins more]
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Telepresence Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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N. Katherine Hayles, Katherine Hayles
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The title of this scholarly yet remarkably accessible slice of contemporary cultural history has a whiff of paradox about it: what can it mean, exactly, to say that we humans have become something other than human? The answer, Katherine Hayles explains,
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Janet Horowitz Murray, Janet Horowitz-Murray
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Technology changes storytelling--movies don't tell stories in the same manner as wandering bards. Janet H. Murray, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is fascinated with the c
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Terrence W. Deacon
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Terrence Deacon's The Symbolic Species begins with a question posed by a 7-year-old child: Why can't animals talk? Or, as Deacon puts it, if animals have simpler brains, why can't they develop a simpler form of language to go with them? Thus begin
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Virtual Reality
(1989) Artificial environment experienced through sensory stimuli provided by a computer and in which one's actions partially determine what happens in the environment. Related meme: telepresence, teledildonics.