OUR JOURNEY FROM

BEASTS to SUPERHEROES to GODS

May 2016www.hypervoice.org

“Man is a rope,tied betweenbeast and Superhuman– a rope over an abyss.”

— Nietzsche

We are beasts

Beast

Beasts aresensual

Computers aresymbolic

We breathe

We have facialexpressions

Our bloodflows

We sweat

We have posture

We expressmovement

We make noise

We are full of hormones

We smell

And we are usingcomputers to take us on a journey

Beast Superhuman

Our bodies: prisoners of one place & time

YOU Place

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Add technology…• Telephone

One body, two places, same time

YOU Places

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YOU

Add technology…

Add technology…

Add technology…

What we want: omnipresence

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What we want: omniscience

OMNITEMPORAL COMMUNICATIONS

Ideas spread with accelerating speed

EVOLUTIONARY SPEED

SUPEREVOLUTIONARY SPEED

What we want: all seeing, all knowing

YOU

Be present anywhere, anytime

“We dream totranscend thebiological shacklesthat limit us.”

— Jason Silva,Futurist and videographer

Just one small problem…

You’re still a beast

Our beastly reality:We try to replicate “being there”

at some other place and time

PRESENT

SUB-PRESENT

“Like being there”

“Worse than being there”

Audio fidelity

Cognitive fidelity

Conversational fidelity

Source: Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics

Our superhero desire:Better than “being there”

PRESENT

SUB-PRESENT

SUPER-PRESENT“Better than being there”

“Like being there”

“Worse than being there”

Audio fidelity

Cognitive fidelity

Conversational fidelity

Capability fidelity

Character fidelity

Source: Joe Burton, CTO, Plantronics

We are building…

Superconductorsfor our minds

INTERNAL CONTEXT

EXTERNAL CONTEXT

This superhuman technology is

Everywhere

The problem…

SUB-PRESENCE

SUPER-PRESENCE

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…is privacy

Computers amplify symbols

When sensual data is turned into symbols,

computers erode privacy

This is a fundamental tension we

need to resolve

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Where this journey takes us

Beasts

Superheroes

Gods

Beast

Superhero

“I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: a hominid that takes direct and deliberate controlover the evolution of his species,her species and other species.”

—Juan EnriquezBiologist

Gods

“The essential function of the universe, whichis a machine formaking gods.”

— Henri BergsonPhilosopher

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