The document discusses how people are exploring what it means to be cyborgs through their use of digital technologies like the internet and mobile phones. It explores examples like intelligent textiles, prosthetic enhancements, and how some theorists see us becoming "spatially extended cyborgs" through our networked interactions. The document also examines the concept of "cyberculture" and how studies of human-computer interactions and mundane technology use are revealing what it means to live in a world of growing human-machine integration.

1. TECH2002 Studies in Digital Technology Lecture Week 6: Cyberculture and mundane cyborg practice Andrew Clay 6

4. blueBook project (Manolis Kelaidis)

7. Intelligent textiles – air guitar t-shirt

12. Kevin Warwick

13. Slide 13

15. http://www.kevinwarwick.org/

16. Stelarc A third virtual arm Muscles stimulated by computers Connection to robotic prosthetics He wants a third ear

17. A new physiological entity? A network of organic and technological parts in a cybernetic circuit

18. The body is trapped by gravity

24. Cyberculture studies Computer and networked technologies biotechnology

25. Cyberpunk fiction 1984 disembodied cyberspace

26. ‘ technoculture’ increasing incidence of human-machine convergence and interface cyberculture computers and networks biotechnology robotics artificial intelligence (AI) genetics

29. a simple circuit between the brain and the cinema, the spectator is a cybernetic subject of the physical cinema

36. http://www.michaelchorost.com

37. mobile privatization mobility personalisation

39. ‘ The second best part about the Nike+ running — the cool, video-game like part — is that you not only run, but you also get points for running . Your score ever-increases. Better still, if you set goals for yourself, you even get awesome virtual trophies and ribbons , resplendent in their vector beauty... And the coolest part about Nike+ running? Like any good online game, you can challenge your friends. First to 100 miles? Fastest 5-mile time? Your call’ http://www.cabel.name/2006/08/multiplayer-game-of-year.html

49. Podcasting – ordinary – extraordinary?

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