VIRTUAL REALITY WILL LEAD THE FUTURE (WILLEN PAUL BRINKMAN)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXb7pf8tbuI

SUMMARY:

Fear… we need fear, without fear he thinks we won’t survive a day, but talk about these people that fear high, fear flying, their fear is not helpful anymore, they hit them in their everyday life. In these cases we start to talk about a disorder, and this is not that uncommon. Statistics says that more less than 20% of the people might have this disorder, during the life time. And what happens to these people? They try to avoid the situation they are scared of. However, if you look in a therapy what people do, it’s the opposite, confrontation, expose people to routine their fear, but it could be costly.

The community he is working with is a cyber therapy community, and they thing the solution is exposing people in fear. They’re not the only one working on this, so in Spain there is a group that is also work with this kind of things.

The next one is panic disorder; in this case people might think they have a panic attack which means that they think they are suffocated and a have a heart attack, now they include in the virtual reality the sound of the heart and the breathing. They use this also to soldiers that are afraid of bombs and terrorist attacks. 

Studies say that 70% of patients prefer virtual therapy than normal therapy.

PERSONAL REACTION:

I would like to try this method... because spiders scare me. And it's really interested to use virtual reality to learn how to afront our scares. I hope that our country has centers where try this type of therapy, it would be cool.

STAGES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsKczpEYgLg

SUMMARY:

• Child:  “Dependence”, from the time they were born until about the age of 12, they are physical emotional and dependence outside of ourselves to take care of us. As we progress we move into…
• Adolescence: what is usually around the age of 13 until 19, we move into a stage of development called “Independence”. Then as we continue to progress in our development we move into what he calls…
• Adult:  “Interdependence”,
• Mature Adult: “Interdevelopmental”,
• Evolved Adult: “Interconnecteness”.

So one thing he thinks about each statement is that they have a voice, and the voice of the child, the dependence is that “I need you”; the voice of the adolescence that is independence, that voice says “I don’t need you”, and it´s an unnecessary stage in our evolution as we grow involve; and then we move to the next stage, into being an adult, we really distingue which is this stage, it’s kind of moving out from adolescence, it says “yeah, I’m independent on other people and other people depending on me”, so it’s kind of waking up from adolescence, from immaturity. Interdevelopmental is the next involve and in that stage the voice says “I’m so sufficient”, we actually enjoy being around each other, we make sure so more values of white mind, but the relationship is very different, it’s not based on needs instead “I really enjoy you, you bring out the best of me, I bring out the best on you… what can we create together?, what can we develop together?, what can we collaborate on?”. The last stage here is the Evolved Adult, what is the recognition of interconnecteness, perhaps is virtual outlook like “there is no you, there is no me”.

PERSONAL REACTION:

Well, i was thinking about the stages of life, but i don't think Adolescence is not the stage in which you are independent, because i have seen many gyus and girls that are really dependents... Even, people get maturity when they adults, they are also adolescents that are mature.

LISTEN TO COLOR (NEIL HARBISSON)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvVeMxQqnys

SUMMARY:

He was born with a red visual condition with is total color illness so he have never seen color and he doesn´t know how color looks like because he came from a gray world, to him the sky is always gray, flowers are always gray and television is still in black and white, but since the age of 21 instead of seeing color he can hear color. In 2003 he started the project with the computer scientist Adam Montandom and the result with the collaboration with Peter Keshef from Slovenia and Mathias Linthana from Barcelona, is this electronic eye, it’s a color sensor that detects the color frequency in front of him and sends this frequency to a chip installed in the back of his head and he hear the color in front of him. So, he have been hearing color all the time for 8 years since 2004, so he have been completely normal not to hear color all the time, at start do he has to memorize the name you give for each color so he had to memorize the notes but after sometime all these information became a perception, he didn’t have to think about the notes and after sometime this perception became a feeling; he started to have favorite colors and he started to dream in colors, so when he started to dream in color is when he felt that the software and his brain had united, cause in his dreams, it was his brain creating electronic sounds and it wasn’t the software, so that’s when he started to feel like a cyborg, is when he started to feel that the cybernetic device was not longer and device, it had became part of his body, an extension of his senses; and after sometime it even became a part of his official image. In his passport his photo shows him wearing the electronic eye, even you’re not allowed to appear in U.K passport with electronic equipment, but he insisted to the passport officer, what they were seeing was actually a new part of his body, an extension of his brain, and they finale accepted him to appear with that in the passport photo. So, life has change grammatically since he hear color, cause color is almost everywhere. Bigger changes, for example, at going to an art gallery, he can listen to a Picasso for example, so it’s like going to a concert, cause he can listen to the paintings; and supermarkets, he find this is very attractive, to walk alone in the supermarket is like going to a night club with different melodies. Also the way he dress has changed, before he used to dress in a way that looks good, now he dress in a way that sounds good. And also, food, the way he looks at food has changed, because now he can display food on a plate, so he can eat his favorite song, depending in how he displays, he can hear and he can compose music with food. Also the way he perceive beauty has changed, because when he looks at someone he hear the face, so someone that look really beautiful can sounds really terrible or may happen the opposite.

Another thing that happens is that he started to have this secondary effect, the normal sounds started to become colors. He got to the point when he was able to perceive 360 colors, just like human vision, he was able to differentiate all the degrees, but then he though that this human vision wasn’t good enough, there is many more color around, that we cannot perceive, but the electronic eyes can perceive, so he decided to continue extending his color senses. He thinks all we wish to perceive things we cannot, like ultraviolet; that’s why 2 years ago he created the Cyborg Foundation which is a function that tries to help people become a cyborg, tries to encourage people to extend their senses by using technology as part of the body. All of us know that knowledge comes from our senses, so if we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

He thinks life would be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and start creating applications for our own body.

PERSONAL REACTION:

I really enjoy this video. It's amazing the way he can hear colors and also the way he can transform sounds of the everyday life into colors. I like the idea of being a cyborg, because you could perceive colors you can't perceive with the human eyes... Before to watch this video i have never taugh that a person can hear colors.

HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFORM THE HUMAN BODY (LUCY MCRAE)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4g60zB4Un4

SUMMARY:

She called herself a “body architect”. As a body architect, she is fascinated with the human body and explore how can transform them. She is looking 20 years into the future, she was exploring the human skin and how technology can transform the body, and she went to concept that electronic tattoo which is movemented by touch or dresses of plastic with lat. She started her own experiments; she started the collaboration with a friend, he doesn’t know he’ll be like this. They transform their apartments into laborites and went to a very spontaneous and a media way. They will be creating visual symmetry provoking human evolution. Something that is between, like for example not gas and not liquid, made her became obsessive with the idea of blearing this in the body, so you couldn’t see where the skin enter and the new environment started. She uses to experiment with herself and she´s fascinated with the idea of what happen if you match biology with technology, she remember she was reading about this idea of being able to reprogram biology in the future, and she tough about this concept imagining if we can reprogram our own body out of modify biologically and handsome and how would that change the way that we communicate with each other or the way that we attract sexual partners and we would be more like animals more prime way to communication. And she created a perfume pill, which is a cosmetic pill that you eat and the fragrance comes out of the skin when you just transpire. It completely change the way the thing perfume is, its perfume coming from inside to out.

She is looking for the evolution of the world, she can see trends and connections that make sense but when she looks to all the future, the next project is completely unknowing. She feels that she can have all these ideas existing embedded inside of her. As a body architect she has created all these limited less for her to discover whatever she wants. And she feel she just have started.

PERSONAL REACTION:

It's really interesting to see these people trying to look at the future and his develop in our bodies. I was surprised of what she shows in the video because of the imagination she had to do those things and also because of the way she is obsessionated with this. I think it's not bad to think in the future because is where we are going to live tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, etc. and... if we could have a vision of the technology, why not about technology in our bodies?