Jessica Monegro

For my selfie project, I created a collage of what I felt represented me such as what I love, my interests, and some hobbies.

“We are all cyborgs now”

• Cyborg: an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new environments. 

• Inside a computer there’s thousands of information that is important to us. 

• We have a “second self” online. 

• Technology is made for humans 

• Called phones “wormholes”

• People mentally transform themselves when on their phone 

• Ambient intimacy - “were not always connected to everybody, but at anytime we can connect to anyone we want”. 

• People aren’t taking time for mental reflection anymore

• Machines aren’t really taking over, it’s that they’re helping us to be more human. It helps us connect with each other.

“Big Mother is Watching You”

• Tracks her sleeping cycle with an app called Sleep Cycle. 

• “By 2018, there will be 60 millions fitness tracers in use worldwide”

• The Apple Watch aims to put health trackers on 15 million wrists. 

• Trackers have still penetrated only 3% of the marketplace.

• “The next generation of devices will promise ways to think about our bodies and lives in fundamentally more sophisticated, profound, and actionable ways.”

• Knowledge is a source of peace.