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People, Personas, and Politics 34 – Information and Behaviour Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 22, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Other forms of misinformation and information overload cracking the egg of normal human behavior. Rick Rosner: Human behavior is going to—we have been, throughout our history, acting according to biological imperatives in increasingly fancy and technology-filled environments. We live in technologically mediated dwellings. Dwellings are a form of technology. Apes living in trees or sleeping in caves don’t have dwelling technology. Once you start stacking up Palm Fronds and stick and skins, you are starting to have building technology. The food we eat comes from technology. Clothing—language is a form of communication technology. Everything we do is a form of technology. It is mostly in the form of technology. It is mostly in the service of biological imperatives – continuing to live, to not die, to reproduce, to evaluate each other and the environment according to how they may help or hurt our changes to survive and reproduce. We’re still completely biological. Even though, we are surrounded by our technology. The entirely biological era of humanity will be coming to, not an end but—well, the era of non-purely biological humanity has begun. One of the major mediators of this change is information. The way we are now with regard to social media and how we exchange information is radically different from the way people exchanged information just 10 years ago. The amount of information that’s exchanged is radically different than eras ago. We are going to augment our information processing abilities. We have started, but it will begin to be more intimate. We will be more linked into non-biological information processing. So that eventually we will be integrated into large information processing systems. You can argue that we already are via the endless and constant flow of information that we have put ourselves into. But that’s more of an app—it’s not physically connected to us for the most part. I have my fitness bracelet. A lot of people wear Fit Bits, but that’s fancy jewelry. 1% of the population dos have a computer built into him or herself. Pacemaker, cochlear implants, insulin pumps, but even that is not that intimate. Pacemakers aren’t really influencing—you haven’t changed your thinking. You made your heart beat regularly. That in-built intimacy will eventually take the form of information processing augmentation, and what becomes acceptable in terms of—we couldn’t handle Google Glass, but 50 years in the future. There will be acceptable ways to have wearable either built-on or ride-on or built-in computing devices. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |