Presupposing A Future in Digital Telepathy Isabel Pedersen TEDxStMaryCSSchool

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Imagine a world where information is sent through digital telepathy. In this engaging TEDx talk, Dr. Isabel Pedersen questions the impact of advancing personal technology on human society in the near, as well as, the distant future. Drawing on the Continuum of Embodiment concept she coined throughout her extensive research, Pedersen discusses how the social normalization of mobile technology made way for the current trend of wearable technology, which in turn will most likely make way for the future of implantable and embodied technology and beyond. Pedersen encourages listeners to be excited and optimistic for the future and the technological advancements it will bring, but also appeals to the audience to consider the social implications of inventions while looking to the future. Will the implantable computer chips promised by large corporations have a positive or negative effect on human society? Only time will reveal the answers, but the questions need to be asked right now. • • Dr. Isabel Pedersen is a researcher, educator, and writer focused on discovering how technologies suggested today might shape the future. She is the author of Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality-Shifting Media, which explores how wearable and implantable technologies ought to be strategized for the future that they imply. Her concerns are for our future digital lives that seem dramatically divergent from our current ones. Her interests also include the predictive potential of dystopian films, posthuman pondering, brain interfaces, and bionic contact lenses. In 2014, Dr. Pedersen was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. As Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media and Culture, Dr. Pedersen also holds the title of Associate Professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). • This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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