Spooky Technology
Daragh Byrne, Dan Lockton, Meijie Hu, Miranda Luong, Anuprita Ranade, Karen Escarcha, Katherine Giesa, Yiwei Huang, Catherine Yochum, Gordon L. Robertson, Lisa Yeung, Matthew Cruz, Christi Danner, Elizabeth Wang, Malika Khurana, Zhenfang Chen, Alexander Heyison, Yixiao Fu
Abstract
Our everyday technologies could have appeared terrifying to our ancestors: instantaneous disembodied communication, access to knowledge, objects with 'intelligence' that talk to us (and each other). Black boxes and intangible entities are omnipresent in our homes and lives without our necessarily understanding the hidden flows of data, unknown agendas, imaginary clouds, and mysterious rules that govern them. Have humanity's ways of relating to the unknown throughout history gone away, or have they perhaps transmuted into new forms?