brainvomit:

Transhumanists tend to talk about how technology will create additional abilities for humans, but what I really want to hear about is how technology will become invaluable to disabled folks and the disenfranchised.

Autistic people sensitive to sound with cochlear implants where they can control sound dampening in different environments. People with muscular dystrophy equipped with exoskeletons. People with PTSD creating customized augmented reality overlays which warn them of possible triggers. People with low incomes 3D printing tools and technology on the cheap….

That’s what I want popularized in the future. Not businessmen being marketed to for wearable computers.

We’re installing some CAD software so that way we have something more appropriate/easier for showing some of our ideas than just trying to draw them with vectors.

We can’t seem to find any of the tutorials for making a shutter switch for a digital camera anymore… we could just test it out, but don’t know if is uses a stereo or mono connector and don’t want to mess up the camera :X

BTW, our thoughts aren’t actually targeted at individuals? Individuals can heavily influence our train of thought, but the actual expressions we carry on from there are meant more generalized versus trying to be subtext about someone (we’re generally not too much of a fan of subtext, it’s hard for us to understand a lot of the time, even when we use it).

Many people have gotten so mad at us for telling them what they were saying didn’t make any sense to us? And we’d ask them questions to try and parse the meaning but usually they would refuse to answer, insisting the meaning was obvious… other times when we could get answers we’d end up deconstructing the subject to the point that they’d say they don’t even know what they mean… but then be even more mad at us for that? For us, those are the times we feel sudden ease and then update our point of view?