Posts tagged Technology
Avatar and the true science of virtual experience
Feb 18th
By Dr Johanna Saltis
I recently saw Avatar in 3-D. Cool florescent forests. Worth seeing if you also want to see an allegory for some contemporary and historical atrocities.
Putting social conscience aside, this movie also got me thinking about another important topic, the psychology and neuroscience of potential Avatar technology. Did I say potential? A few years ago now, a Wired article summed up the emerging data from experiments simulating virtual experiences. See http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/vr-goggles-and/ for a discussion of these (2/12/08).
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A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
Feb 18th
Technology has always hurt our minds – or so we are always told. This article by Vaughn Bell on Slate explains.
http://www.slate.com/id/2244198/pagenum/all/
Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of technology on mind and brain. From a historical perspective, what strikes home is not the evolution of these social concerns, but their similarity from one century to the next, to the point where they arrive anew with little having changed except the label.
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