Relevant reading
There are several really good books released over recent months that offer some insights in emerging trends and new phenomenon form online worlds. Â
New world order – online surveillance
Turbulence blog reports: New Scientist reveals that the Pentagon’s NSA in the form of ARDA (Advanced Research Development Activity) are interested in the information people post about themselves on social networking sites like MySpace and are funding research into it’s mass harvesting. The W3C WWW2006 conference accepted a paper entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, […]
Who defines the limits?
I believe Stelarc has added arms and ears but not amputated anything. He has speculated on the worth of the wetware we are born with and whether or not we might be better off replacing it with hardware. You said “My main concern is I guess to suggest that maybe there should be boundaries to […]
Risk – Arts and IT in education
The people at Symbiotica have to follow very rigorous ethics protocols – they form part of the school of Anatomy and Human Biology at UWA – http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ and have to meet all the ethics requirements of any other research program.  What interests me about their work is the excision of arbitrary boundaries on knowledge – […]