Thoughts Arising from the Conference
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- My research is akin to a Risk Assessment, aimed at the 21st century 'Human as a System' - to discover problems on the human side of the haptic interface.
- Ectobionics, once developed for the military, will soon spread into industry (oil exploration, chemical industry etc) and the games/entertainment market.
- Issues of uniformity and standardisation have a Baudrillardian rationalisation feel.
- Psychological stress and ill-preparedness/training implications seem important but without focus compared to the technological implications
- The potential loss of integrity in systems larger than the self-as-a-body; the self-as-a-body being larger than that bounded by the skin.
- Metabolic Cost concept - the search for ways of isolating the individual from the ACTUAL environment and encasing the individual in and IDEAL/VIRTUAL environment for optimal performance.
- Optimal performance on a scale which disregards engagement with the ACTUAL environment in the ways of the native hunter...
- Hollywood movies, ALIENS and PREDATOR are benchmark ideas for this conference. DARPA are trying to bring them into reality. They are the language by which the military communicate with the scientists.
- Cyberculture is here!
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