Artificial flavours, augmented senses, immersive media, augmented reality, virtual reality By shaping the media environment, media are able to tune the human sensorium according to their “bias”. Equipped with ideasthesia/synesthesia, the sensorium follows the environment. In its turn, thanks to… Read More ›
Futurology
Temporal shock. Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise – II
The technological shock has to do with the mess in space and is accompanied by the temporal shock that has to do with the compression of time. In previous eras, each of which contained a number of successive generations, people… Read More ›
Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise: Protecting Humans from the Digital Environment – I
The ecological approach to humans’ adaptation to the digital environment is rooted in the ideas of traditional ecology, yet it turns these ideas upside down. The main idea of a traditional environmental movement is to protect the environment from human… Read More ›
Tickling a touchscreen. Grabbing information. Resettling a human being.
As Gigaom informs, touch screen devices will soon learn new finger movements. We still have so few options for interactions with gadgets, experts complain. (“How to take mobile gestures to the next level: use pitch, yaw and “the claw””, by… Read More ›
The Chain of Singularities
A futuristic speculation Why deep space exploration will never happen. – Nanotechnologies as medieval alchemy. – The completion of media evolution. – The trial by getting high. – The paradox of self-copying. – Mega-evolution and Singularity-2. …The aim of this… Read More ›
Phenomenological Postmetaneopositivism
(Prolegomena to the methodology of unscientific knowledge) 1. There is a reason underlying the expression “what underlies the facts.” Facts serve to cover up the essence of things. . 1.1. Facts take a lot of time without adding much sense…. Read More ›