2022 Annual Robert Mayberry Lecure
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
11:00 a.m.
Allendale Campus
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Context Blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution
Dr. Eva Berger's lecture - Context blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution - is based on her new book with the same title. The book's thesis is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context-blind. And since context blindness—or caetextia in Latin—is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior, people with autism may be giving us a peek into our impending human condition. Phenomena such as cancel culture, trigger warnings, and safe spaces are early signs. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not, because we are context blind. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us: Homo caetextus
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This event was added to the calendar by Corey Anton (antonc@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 10:02 a.m.