Great News! The next CyborgCamp will be in early May of 2010. That means its time to start planning!

This meeting is everyone’s chance to brainstorm on location ideas, sponsors and speakers. What kinds of topics are of interest to you? How has the idea of Cyborg evolved over the last year? What new kinds of technologies have arrived on the scene?

We’ll discuss volunteers and the wiki too. Come along, especially if you helped make CyborgCamp PDX ‘08 so excellent in the first place. Bring snacks and drinks to share with others.

This planning meeting will most likely be followed by general networking and fun at a local haunt.

RSVP on Upcoming.org

Where:

AboutUs.org

107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
Portland Oregon 97214
United States

When:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 from 7–9pm

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What is CyborgCamp?

CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.

CyborgCamp’s aim is to have many communication channels, such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen.
Why May 2010? In March 2010, CyborgCamp will make its way to Brazil and back before landing again in Portland, Oregon for its second year.

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Questions? Contact Amber Case @caseorganic or MJ @mama_j.

You can also follow @cyborgcamp on Twitter for updates.

A.I. Has Taken Over My Life

CADIE: the world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system, and CADIE’s Gmail Autopilot System destroyed the future of multiple sectors of workers, including myself.

As an overworked and uber-busy Cyborg Anthropologist, I’m left to simply let Artificial Intelligence write my books, publish them, and even go on book tours in place of me. Is it a better world because of this? I think not - I’d rather not wake up every morning to see a new pile of work done in my name. But every time I try to stop the AI, it tells me that I ’shouldn’t do that’, so I’m left to sit in my room, doing nothing, while the AI does everything for me.

It even thinks my thoughts for me now — and is ever writing this sensence.

Future of Web Work

And what has this new AI done to the rest of the web workers? I guess they’re out of work too - but I don’t know, because ever since I set my Gmail to CADIE’s Gmail Autopilot System, I’ve been able to sit back and watch my Google calendar fill up with guest speeches and keynotes, and the AI is going in my place.

AI Learning

But how does this AI learn all of this? I think the answer might be that CADIE is reading all of our Slideshare presentations got today.That fiesty panda has to learn how to sound slighly human from something, right? Although I’m not sure if she can parse The Onion yet.

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