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Microsoft’s new HoloLens promises to blend the real world with the virtual. Microsoft

February 6, 2015

With HoloLens, the future of reality is augmented

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, University of Sydney

Prepare to open your wallets, ladies and gentlemen: Microsoft has announced the release of an augmented reality (AR) headset called HoloLens. Although having been announced only a fortnight ago, tech media…

Serbian villagers fear vampires, but we have our own superstitions in the Anglosphere. Drurydrama (Len Radin)

December 4, 2012

Vampires and wind farms: mass hysteria can be a pain in the neck

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, University of Sydney

If the latest spate of news stories coming out of Serbia are anything to go by, the tiny and otherwise unassuming village of Zarožje has something of a vampire problem. Local legend tells of Sava Savanovi…

The imperative to remember information has been replaced with the imperative to remember where information is located. parkieblues

November 25, 2012

Outsourcing memory: the internet has changed how we remember

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, University of Sydney

When Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” hit newsstands in the July/August 2008 edition of The Atlantic, the reaction was predictably vociferous. The essay itself – a 4,175 word editorial…

Augmentation technologies will challenge what it means to be human. WebWizard

July 13, 2012

Augmentation technologies are here but are people listening?

Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow, University of Sydney

“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” William Gibson, Count…

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