{"id":331,"date":"2016-07-29T14:28:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T22:28:43","slug":"fending-off-the-tyranny-of-tools-ieee-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/29\/fending-off-the-tyranny-of-tools-ieee-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fending Off The Tyranny of Tools &#8211; IEEE Spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When used with awareness and attention, our tools foster embodied cognition\u2014they become extensions of our bodies or our minds. But if we stop paying attention, those tools can come to dominate our lives and we become \u201cfunctional cyborgs,\u201d or fyborgs, to use Alexander Chislenko\u2019s evocative blend. We necessarily extend ourselves technologically with eyeglasses or canes or hearing aids, but we frequently go far beyond that to use our latest tools\u2014particularly smartphones and similar devices\u2014to mediate all or most of our experiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/consumer-electronics\/portable-devices\/fending-off-the-tyranny-of-tools\">Fending Off The Tyranny of Tools &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When used with awareness and attention, our tools foster embodied cognition\u2014they become extensions of our bodies or our minds. But if we stop paying attention, those tools can come to dominate our lives and we become \u201cfunctional cyborgs,\u201d or fyborgs, to use Alexander Chislenko\u2019s evocative blend. We necessarily extend ourselves technologically with eyeglasses or canes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}