Cyborg Paradise, a talk with designer-theorist Tom Klinkowstein will explore a future that seems like a utopian paradise for some and for others, sounds more like hell: the cyborgization of humankind. Tom asks, “When we forget our smartphone we feel less smart, giving rise to the question:  Has the once speculative fusion of man and machine already happened?”

Tom Klinkowstein’s diagrammatic narrative, “A Day In The Life Of A Networked Designer’s Smart Things Or A Day In A Designer’s Networked Smart Things, 2030” is currently on exhibit in Paradise 2. In his lecture, he will guide the audience through his nine-foot long diagram  (it takes an hour and forty minutes to read through), exploring the prospects for the realization of that cyborg “paradise” known as “The Singularity”, when mankind and computerkind merge to create a new superbeing. Do we look forward to the day when blood cell-sized super computers implanted in the brain offer eternal life? Tom does and thinks it could occur within this century! His presentation, illustrated with a fascinatingly eclectic slide show, will be followed by discussion with the audience and more wine and socializing into the night.

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