We become so connected that we "bonded" (not to real people) but to what people want, or expect from us, be it: a comment, a reply, a like, a view or something else. But those bonds can become shackles that we can't get away from. All technology has a "off" switch for something, and we better know how to use it so we can find time for ourselves.

This is among the best TED Talks I have ever seen. I was studying anthropology when I saw this. I wanted to do traditional ethnography among the Taoist Tai Chi masters of Mount Wudang. Now I research and design human-in-the-loop autonomous systems integration for NASA's Artemis mission. Thanks, Amber!

Nothing more romantic than a bird siting in your car checking out her mob phone

I love this talk so much! She is such an inspiration to me! Thank you!

The theory that technology brings us closer together is great, but in reality many people are constantly on their phones and rarely take time to connect face to face.

I spoke of all situations. I have friends who live two minutes down the road, but it takes preparation to set up for me to come over, or vice versa. I don't always have the time between my schedule and my friends' schedule to socialize face to face. In lieu of being able to get together physically, we often get together virtually. That said, we do all fence together twice a week, so I still get face to face time. No one socialization strategy is perfect, they all have their ups and downs.

I'm on an iPod, so I can't respond to the guy below me. I'm going to tell you that I have learned TONS of things from the Internet, that of which I have memorized and kept with me. I've memorized things ranging from synonyms of words to scientific theories. You may think that the internet is malignant to the human mind, but I think it is informative.

great quote: "the most successful technology gets out of the way and helps us live our lives..."

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Thanks for telling us all about our day to day life. GoodBye!

Oh my goodness, TED Talks suddenly got so much better again.

A brilliant talk and interesting talk. I've been thinking about this sort of "human networking" for some time now, and it's good to see that someone else has discovered the same phenomenon. Not to mention that she's absolutely adorable ^^

This channel is one of the most intellectually stimulating I have ever found

That speech explains so good what my avatar about!

This makes me wonder; what ever happened to those MIT students of the early to mid 90s who "pioneered" wearable computing and called themselves "the borg"...?

amazingly insightful

"The other thing that happens is that you got a second self, whether you like it or not" and you need to develop and maintain those alter egos because "they are yourself"

@Qtown20 The people who don't know these things are the people who are either affraid of what technology is "doing" and people who have been left behind because they can't keep up with technological changes. This is the kind of video that I send to my Mom so she can keep up with whats actually happening. And besides, it's an 8 minute TED talk, very few of the short ones ever contain new ideas, just new ways of conveying what we already know in more precise and condensed form.

What a great video. I fully agree with the concern with younger generations being unable to unplug from connectivity. I've seen way too many brand new college grads lose their jobs because they can't put their iphones up and stop texting and surfing the net on the job.

Bam! 6:50 classic TED image. I think they hand those images out to speakers on the way in and just say "fit this in somewhere in your presentation, ..it attracts the statistic guys"

im a bit confused, she said technology is taking away from our downtime where we really get to know our true self, then concludes by saying technology is actually super awesome and true self is like totally whatever man!

About time something like this came up.

i have to disagree with this video, i've found myself and everyone around me becoming more and more distant ever since cell phones got huge. Before, the people in the room were the only people in the room, therefore creating a natural environment where human interaction was the only form of enlightenment. Now, we input sentances into machines that deliver this information to other machines, creating an effect that to me severely limits communication.

@delatroy Unless you were born in the late 90s, it merits the focus it receives. The difficult part is appreciating *how* much things have changed.

@Sternertime I couldn't agree more. I have conversations about this when it happens and call people out on it. I say, "Hey, did we get together to hang out? Then why are you on the phone? I am right here. Let's talk." People will grow more dependent on them and soon, as I have already noted a lot, people will rely on them for a lot of common knowledge information.

@VaelVictus I must also suggest the original Ghost In The Shell, -from 1995, it has cyborg cops who know kung foo and special effects, and one of them gets all existential about cyborgdom. It's awesome.

I like this talk. Not too profound, but sums things up nicely.

Would have been nice to give reference to Donna Harraway,who is the originator of this phrase

Nicely done, Amber.

@Qtown20 The existential cyborg bit is basically the entirety of Masamune Shirou's body of work... all of the GitS franchise, all the Appleseed material, even when he does fantasy (Orion) it's really about the philosophy of human augmentation. Of course, a lot of it grew out of the classic cyberpunk novels like Neuromancer and Snow Crash... and if you like, there are threads of the same ideas running all the way back to the earliest days of sci-fi literature and film.

Interesting talk. It made me think of an animation called Serial experiments Lain which was very much inspired by this subject. Very thought provoking stuff... It might not be for everyone though, judging from some comments.

Although her talk contains many truths regarding humankind, I must disagree with her use in labeling "us" as all "cyborgs".Cybernetic organisms have more to do with biomaterials and bioelectronics. "A cyborg, short for "cybernetic organism", is a being with both organic and cybernetic parts...There is a clear distinction between the human and computerized technology...which differs from cyborgs in that cyborgs act out human functions..."

she sounds so positive about a negative thing, yes there are pros but also cons. You cant just talk about the pros. Technology is crippling us, we're losing our ability to remember things because we don't NEED to. so memory (which is a trained skill) is not being taught seriously anymore. and people who actually have this skill & a great memory are considered "above average" or "genius" ; when in the past it was just normal. I feel this ted talk was lacking and it was hard to enjoy.

@ricobalboa5288

6 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you, specially with the analitical capabilities of the younger ones. Nonetheless as time evolves old capacities are lost and new ones are learned. I mean now a days alost no one knows how to chase their one food or run during 3 days straight...

@foxzs

5 жыл бұрын

Technology is not what cripples us - it is how we apply it in our own lives. It can only seek to benefit us if we use it with such purposes in mind. Schools, for instance, should integrate critical thinking and analysis when it comes to online sources by implementing questions that simply does not ask a yes or no question, rather, a why/significance-based one.

"We are the Borg" I never knew "we" meant human. Well there is a twist to the whole Star Trek plot.

A bit too many assumptions being made here for my liking. Who is claiming that constant social interaction is so innate to mankind that technology is allowing us to be 'more human'?

@matthewgarvin3943

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry what? Human beings are a social species. Did you miss the part where Amber said that her concern is constant social interaction interfering with downtime and self-reflection?

listened to the first minute and a half, read the first page of comments, im not even going to bother with the rest of this. just another one of these speeches we've all heard a million times.

The preponderance of technology is yet another command upon the truly human to adopt rites of passage. In days of old, an adolescent was required to prove his worth to the society by surviving without it. In the same way, we can only come to the table of cyborg humanity if we are capable of bringing some identity that has form in absence of the other voices. The way to do this is to spend time alone, self-constructing, so that when we are with others, they will notice that we are unique.

@Wyndstarthedruid whats "bong beiber"?

I guess it's not about people being on their phones all the time not communicating with other people. We are communicating, just not to the person in front of us, I have friends all around the world and just because my keyboard is the one doing the talking doesn't mean that I'm not communicating.

This is kind of old hash, but still a good talk.

In Poland people speak to mobile phones, coz after Italy Poland has so many ears in mobile phones, so our communication is now Cyborg Anthropology.

@zydomason KZread is a social network. Your KZread profile is a digital extension of your physical self. This is a beautiful thing.

for me computer is bout a web browser, i lost a 120 gb hdd of stuff on my last pc, but i dont regret it big time only coz, the new pc still manages to connect me to the internet :)

What you’re not learning is that you don’t need computers to connect to someone half way around the world-to truly know yourself-you need to go within-not online!!!♥️

Her father watched event horizon.

The automobile is an extension of your feet, clothing an extension of your skin, glasses an extension of your eyes, the internet an extension of your nervous system. ~Marshall McLuhan

"It's not that the machines are taking over" - 7:00 - er...

"Machines are helping us to become more human... We're increasing our humanness" I like.

that's a whole lotta words for saying "technology is awesome"... ... A: Dude.. Dude! B: Yea..? A: Have you ever looked @ your cellphone dude..? Like really LOOKED @ it? B: Yea... A: But no, dude, I mean, seriously dude, have you ever looked @ it... Like... OOON WEEEEEED? B: Dude... Dude... OMG! Yes! It's like! Like! It's like a freakin' WORMHOLE IN YOUR POCKET!

@noahmcdaniel4920

6 жыл бұрын

Man you really missed the point.

Mindblowingly brilliant. This message sent from cyberspace.

i like her thoery, it has a lot more to do, than just what comes to the eye

Stumbling upon a video where the person in it actually has public speaking skills makes my day.

Very good.

Amber: Framing things in hyperbolic or metaphoric terms doesn't actually *add* anything to human knowledge. I'll be happy when TED stops letting people on who are in essence just saying "technology: WOAH!"

@Creation0012 Clothing works in a very similar fashion to the other technological advances but to a much lesser degree. You may ask to a much lesser degree of what? I remember Marshall McLuhan warning folks that when technology changes, man changes. Clothing has definitely changes man, but to a lesser degree than the others. But I'm more interested in how the electronic technology will change man.

Would you call Benedict and Mead copycats of Boaz?

Perhaps we should have some kind of right of passage rituals for our graduation into digital adulthood. I wonder what that would look like.

two thumbs up !!

So when do I get to be like Alex Mercer?

It's an interesting way of looking at a fairly old issue that's never going to go away. But she's not, as some people in the comments have said, offering useless information. She is, in fact, offering no information. In other words, WAY TO STATE THE OBVIOUS, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS.

an OK talk. much better than 90% of women on TED.

Stop with all the clickbait

I'll go with the cyborg thing. But the wormhole thing? Humbuggery!

@Creation0012 No, it just alludes to some people not being aware ;)

@BlackJack9990 im sure.......but the first part of my statement. even if she DOES mean it in an abstract sense. STILL holds true.

Anyone interested in talks like these should check out Out of Control by Kevin Kelly. It, in part, inspired the Matrix movies.

prt1- Here's the end bit of a chapter titled Xerox and Infinity, from a book written by Baudrillard called The Transparency of Evil, which can be read as a possible detour when considering the cathartic conclusion of this vid; - "What a relief! Thanks to the machinery of the virtual, all your problems are over! You are no longer either subject or object, no longer either free or alienated-and no longer either one or the other: you are the same, and enraptured by the commutations of that sameness

Extension of the physical and mental self defines not only everyone who has ever used a tool, telephone, TV or cell phone but especially meaningful for all ventriloquists of which there are quite a few as of the last count at the ventriloquist's convention in Covington Kentucky in 2011.The puppets and the puppet makes and the ventriloquists reach with their voices into a modeled character extended beyond their physical and mental selves. Amber case' work is fascinating and her truths profound.

Do we blame the technology for the way that people choose to act, or the people for having chosen this? Furthermore, is face to face the most efficient and "best" form of socialization? It's impractical to get face to face with my friends all the time, because I just don't have that time to do so. Don't blame the tech for the supposed pitfall, blame the current situation in which we live.

@jiberish001 why on earth are you so negative? these aren't "opinions", they're different ways of conceptualising things. it's not the best TED talk I've ever had, but -- I have to ask, what is it, exactly, that you disagree or take issue with in this video?

well i have an android phone, but this is kind of a silly way to think about it.

@Carrera1123 it's not meant to be taken literally

Data moves at the speed of light, that's why you can whisper on 1 side of the world and be heard on another.

Yeah! I want my man TED!

npr yall?

@ApatheticPerception Because there isn't a TED Men.

Prt 2- “We have left the hell of other people for the ecstasy of the same, the purgatory of otherness for the artificial paradises of identity. Some might call this an even worse servitude, but Telecomputer Man, having no will of his own, knows nothing of serfdom. Alienation of man by man is a thing of the past: now man is plunged into homeostasis by machines.”-page 66. This was written 21 years ago in 1990, - the eve of widespread global internet activity. Could any of this be true in 2011?

No shit. I really did not know

Question is: does this technology make us any more happy at all? I'm not sure all the rush and conectability interaction in digital world is good, since we stop conecting with reality.... on the other hand, I'm posting this in KZread, and what is reality? O.o! Guess we have to learn to addapt ourselves to this new scenario, and not abuse of the technology: get out of the screen if you can, and go have coffe in the garden :) PD: I've seen kids send sms to each other being in the same room :(

silly girl. we will adapt. we always do. I did like the talk though.

@delatroy It's a hook. Got me to watch the video.

@MisterAaronRodriguez Nice.

@xxfoggybubbles420xx sounds like you no longer live with your family and are projecting your personal experience of that onto the entire world. Some people do live close to friends and family while some do not. This close proximity isolation is not all encompassing.

I truly believe that the cyborgs of today while less social, are supremely more moral and thoughtful as well as innovative. Just a feeling

We are now a self evolving system. For quite a while .

@MRaverz Step three: Add "cyborgy" to the English language. Step four: Make it happen.

"really it ends up being more human than technology" - 7:10 - maybe, but come back in a few more years time...

@gekkeduncan

4 жыл бұрын

And?

@MDude1350 mirrors do it all the time... :(

Lives.

the internet is certainly the greatest thing that exists today. information is so vast these days. it's also harder for TPTB to control the information flow, and they can't cover things up as easily anymore... 20% of the population has figured out 9/11 by now

The Internet is the brain of the earth; our computers are it's neurons; We are the neurotransmitters...

If the nukes went off tommorow & there was no more electricty, could you survive? What backup plan do you have to contact important people? Cellphones won't matter if all the satellites are knocked out. Even if you recharged it with a solar panel. Can you live without a fridge or freezer? Do you have a source of fresh water? We have lived on this planet for how long? In only 100 years we have become reliant on other people to provide. What if that system breaks apart? You can eat your money..

dont think

@Mystery207 what jbohler33 said.

space compression?? WTF? you still got thousands of kilometer of cable around the world, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to "be there".. you still got the same distance...

@Vormav666 wich one?

@NinjaRunningWild That goes with most other drugs too, hippie.

@delatroy u ever get the feeling u underappreciate the world we live in? Case and point having, at your fingertips, almost every bit of information humanity has collected over it's 2 thousand year existence? Being able to communicate with somebody that's not on the planet? The world is VERY different from what it used to be... It deserves exaggeration.

And we are bionic when we get a knee replacement?

i just googled myself. some guy with the same exact name as me killed his dad O_o lol