The document discusses how technology shapes human perception and social interaction. It argues that social interaction now requires technological connections as we extend our bodies into devices to stay connected to networks. This weaving of technology into everyday life results in humans occupying multiple layers of space rather than a single physical space. As technology and nature hybridize, the divide between the natural and artificial is blurring as humans increasingly take on mutant forms.

1. Soft Machines and the Design of Perception

2. an organizational system in which robot-like problems are taken care of automatically and unconsciously, leaving man free to explore, to create, to think, and to feel. Clynes & Kline, ”Cyborgs and Space”

3. The design of technology is a site of struggle. Andrew Feenberg, Critical Theory of Technology

6. embodiments of a procedure for the production of sense David Porush, The Soft Machine

8. Social space and cell phones

10. Social space just isn't social anymore, when you can "privatize" it with a cell phone. McKenzie Wark, ”The Cancer of Cellspace”

12. Social space and iPods

13. The Sony Walkman has done more to change human perception than any virtual reality gadget. William Gibson, Time Out , 1993

14. I can’t overestimate the importance of having all my music available all the time. It gives me an unprecedented level of emotional control over my life. Michael Bull, ”No Dead Air!”

19. Connected

23. Soft Machines

24. Social interaction is based on technological connections

25. we need technological devices in order to interact with others

26. we must extend our bodies into technology, or be cut off from the network.

28. We occupy layers of space rather than a singular space

31. Presence is less signifcant, participation is paramount.

32. Be connected.