Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Wearable technologies- the ultimate form of cybernetics?

Privacy issues surrounding the development of wearables.

Tracking – direct marketing.
Access to information – biometrical etc. who has access to information about who and who makes decisions based on it?
Hacking, security.

Implanted technologies.
Microchips
Pacemakers
Decorative implanted objects -body modifications. Subdermal implants.

Worn.
Entertainment.
Health.
Ease of living.

More often we take computing with us.
Increasingly we are not tied to a desk to interact with computers. Mobile phones, MP3 players, bluetooth.

We will grow accustomed to the lack of privacy.

Social implications- will it increase or decrease our face to face interaction with other people?

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