Where Do I Go Now?

Note to Self

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🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

There was a time humans were guided by stars, not satellite. Now you can beam into robots, or turn on GPS. But when we put ourselves on autopilot we may lose our minds.

This week, Manoush outsources her body to a telepresence robot. And finds out what GPS has done to her brain. Turn right, turn left, right off a cliff.

With Greg Milner, author of Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds.

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0:00.0	You guys, I went to a conference as a robot and I discovered that robot me is not that nice.
0:08.5	This is the oddest thing I've ever encountered with three robots or rather three people in
0:13.6	the form of robots.
0:15.4	Yeah.
0:16.4	Huddled in a hallway.
0:17.4	Oh, sorry, sir.
0:19.4	I apologize.
0:20.4	Oh my God, people are having to apologize on my behalf.
0:24.7	Should I freak these guys out?
0:25.8	Let's just freak them out.
0:27.7	I'm just kidding.
0:30.7	Note to self, when we hand over our physical bodies to the machines, we may lose our minds.
0:40.5	I'm a new summer ody and most of the time I'm just a human, here to help you understand
0:45.8	this accelerating world and keep you focused on what really matters.
0:51.4	And for the last few months, I've been exploring with the team what happens when we get our
0:56.6	real flesh and blood selves tangled up with algorithms from outsourcing your body to a robot
1:04.9	to letting GPS do all your thinking.
1:08.5	What happens when we lose touch with where we are in the world?
1:13.3	So I just logged in and I see myself so weird.
1:17.0	I'm in the Denver Conference Center as a robot, a parked robot I should add.
1:24.4	Okay, so let's just start with the awesome part first, okay?
1:27.4	You can be sitting at home or in your office while a robot version of you wanders around
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