"Cyborg anthropoloigst" Amber Case is featured in a great interview at Core77. Case, who claims that "Good technology should make you superhuman." She hypothesizes that the Industrial Revolution disconnected people from each other, when "everyone was distributed by highways and cars and stretched out into the suburbs." But now, newer technology has "stitched all of that reality together so that you no longer have to worry about being geographically separate. It's giving us back a tremendous part of our humanity." Case is about to release, A Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, a book that explores how technology is changing the way we live.
According to Case:
The industrial revolution was a horrible period of isolation and non-connectivity, everyone was distributed by highways and cars and stretched out into the suburbs. It was a time when families were likely to get divorced, elders were put in old folks homes, and friends lived across town—the village was torn apart. Technology has come back in and stitched all of that reality together so that you no longer have to worry about being geographically separate. It's giving us back a tremendous part of our humanity.Here is an earlier TED Talk given by Case
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