[ExI] Affordance Theory

[Natasha Vita-More]

Is anyone familiar with Affordance Theory (Gibson 1986). I am applying it to
the environment of life expansion (life extension + whole brain emulation).
It is an interesting theory used in the design discipline
(engineering/industrial design/design) and provides an locus for perceiving
what could be before us, whether known or unknown, as a relationship between
the actor (human in my thesis) and technology (such as HCI) as the prospect
of being afforded (*not* in a monetary sense, but in relation to melioristic
aims).

 

Thanks,

 

Natasha

 

 <http://www.natasha.cc/> Natasha Vita-More
Chairman, Humanity+ 

ExDir, Design ESM <emerging / speculative media>

PhD Researcher, Univ. of Plymouth, UK



Editor, The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary 
Essays on the Science, Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future

 

 

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