test 3 basics

Question 1

Transhumanism

Answer 1

• study of ramifications
• beyong human
• implies merging of human and machine/ artificial intelligence

Question 2

Computational theory of mind

Answer 2

• philosophical theory

- brain is information processing system, thinking is form of computing

Question 3

Artificial intelligence

Answer 3

• use of digital tech to create systems capable of performing tasks commonly thought to require intelligence

Question 4

Persuasive technologies

Answer 4

• increasingly smart and intimate tech that coerce, seduce, or otherwise move ppl towards a belief, position, or course of action

Question 5

Societies of control

Answer 5

• evolving form of power

- controls without confinement

Question 6

Neuropolitics of control

Answer 6

• economic and social political condition

- views humans as brains and neural networks that can be coded, decoded, and recoded

Question 7

7 forces that are re-engineering our brain

Answer 7

1) Digital mirrors
2) Automated/ Autonomous networks
3) Biometric technologies
4) Adaptive interfaces
5) Gaming interfaces & cultures
6) Immersive reality technologies
7) Neural augmentation

Question 8

Digital mirrors

Answer 8

• algorithms

- health records, fitness logs, social contact lists, media prefs

Question 9

Automated/ Autonomous networks

Answer 9

• increasingly automated steady-stream networks
• no human oversight
• create new baselines for normalcy as users compare their own data w group or crowd-sourced data

Question 10

Biometric technologies

Answer 10

• sensory technologies that detect images, heat, motion

- border security tech, self-driving cars, geo-located advertising

Question 11

Adaptive interfaces

Answer 11

• personalized user interfaces adapt according to needs of user
• “no click” interfaces that make decisions for user
• Urbanspoon

Question 12

Gaming interfaces and cultures

Answer 12

• designed to entertain, persuade and impart a point of view to their players through ideologies embedded in their core logic and narratives
• e.g. first-person shooter games w embedded military doctrines

Question 13

Immersive reality technologies

Answer 13

• tools that dramatically expand capacities to visualize our environments and ourselves in augmented reality
• e.g. VR headsets

Question 14

Neural augmentation

Answer 14

• bio and nano neurotechnologies that are implanted surgically to augment intelligence

Question 15

Proteus effect

Answer 15

phenomenon in which behaviour of an individual within virtual worlds is changed by characteristics of their avatar