Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Cybernetic Hate Crime

 A man was attacked in a restaurant for wearing cybernetic equipment.  This is not the first such incident I've heard of.  You pretty much can't travel safely in America if you have computer gear attached to your person.  Even medical devices have been used to bar people from airplanes in some cases, let alone other types of adaptive equipment or personal choices.  It's not supposed to happen to handicapped people, but it does; and there don't seem to be protections for anyone else.  Being visibly different is always at least a small risk, but people seem particularly hostile to obviously technological devices.
Tags: cyberspace theory, news
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lilfluff

lilfluff

July 17 2012, 23:23:27 UTC 8 years ago

Steve Mann has been involved in studying both wearable computing and the social issues of surveillance and sousveillance (essentially inverse surveillance, or when *we* watch back at the people who are watching us -- wikipedia page about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance).

It's been a few years since I'd read an article about him, but given his long term interest in the subject I'm not surprised to hear that he'd go to the extent of having a camera/eye-piece semi-permanently mounted. His research isn't limited to just social issues of surveillance, it also includes how augmented reality could be used to help people. There's an article here that uses the term visual memory prosthetic: http://wearcam.org/vmp/index.html

natf

natf

July 18 2012, 12:51:47 UTC 8 years ago

I need a visual memory prosthetic because I have multiple sclerosis which is eating away at my visual memory.

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