Interesting article on the Google Goggles project that allows people to see through computer monitors in lenses. According to Nick Bilton, of the New York Times, Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses. He mentions questions that have been raised on how privacy will be regulated. To [...]
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CFP: STS Approaches to Neuroscience Objects and Practices
DEADLINE MONDAY 15th MARCH | EASST conference in Trento Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by email (following website instructions) by 2010 March 15th: http://events.unitn.it/en/easst010/abstract-submission
Symposium: Personhood in a Neurobiological Age
Brain, Self and Society | Final Symposium | 13 September 2010 | Venue: The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE It seems that we have learned more about the brain in the last decade than over the previous millennia of human history. But to what extent are developments in the ‘new brain sciences’ [...]
CFP: “Loving the Machine: Human-Machine Relationships in Film and Television”
In the last century, the long-running discourse of human-machine relations extended to film and television depictions of struggles for power, intimacy, identity, or security. Potential social conflicts engendered by producing machines that operate in their own self-interest have been explored in films such as
