Manipulating A Chunk Of Human Experience
Most of the experiences I have focused on in this column dealing with sensory distortion in modern technological society have been visual experiences. Yes, I have dealt with noise pollution …
Laurence Mesirow
Atoning When You Don’t Really Feel It
On Yom Kippur, Jews all over the world go through a process of atoning for their hurtful actions and sins. Just before Yom Kippur, I went to a talk on …
Keeping The Lid On In Our Lives
Our efforts in modern technological society to make life more and more frictionless seem to know no limits. The latest invention to fill this need is the Lyd bottle. This …
The Conspiracies That Only Seem To Exist
One of the more unusual phenomena to appear recently within the ranks of the Republican Party is the Qanon conspiracy theory. According to this theory, the chaos that has been …
Our New Almost-Human Best Friends
Alexa is a virtual assistant created by Amazon for which new uses are constantly developed. One of the recent uses is described by Christina Ianzito in an article for the …
How Robots Can Help Us To Not Be Ourselves
Given the fact that robots are taking over so many of our human work activities, I was trying the other day to gain some perspective on some of the …
Watching People Watch Screens
In a recent article, I discussed a form of technological expression that involved layers of mediated experience. With virtual robots, there is the mediation of having robots to do jobs …
Diving Into The Depths Of Unreality
Now that we have so many different expressions of modern technology in our world, one of the next steps seems to be the combination of different expressions in order to …
Trying to fly over obstacles
As more and more cars hit the roads, and there is an ever increasing amount of urban congestion, people are trying to think of new ways to deal effectively with …
Losing The Story Behind Our Melodies
Artificial Intelligence music (AIM) is based on the random combination and modification of pre-existing note patterns to create new larger note patterns that form a piece of music. Sometimes, when …