Cyborg Social

a good part of the information flows and processing by which you live are digitally mediated by a wide variety of information technologies. Most obviously these include your smartphone, and it includes the applications and services you use through it and that use you through it.

The majority of these digital elements have not been developed first a... See more

A cyborg — or cybernetic organism to use the full title — is part living organism, part machine. In the contexts here, we are the organisms and our integration and reliance upon digital technologies makes us cyborg. Cyborg Social sets out to transform this massively with a dedication to our innate qualities as intelligent social animals.

The cozy web is a turn of phrase describing the growing phenomena whereby web users seek refuge from public algorithm-driven social platforms and services that very often rely upon a surveillance business model. It’s characterised by comparatively small invite-only groups across a variety of applications many of which employ end-to-end encryption f... See more