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Amber Case is a cyber anthropologist.
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Anthropology is the study of cultures and their development.
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Anthropology has been studying tools and cultural artifacts around the world.
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It studies artifacts that functioned as an extension of the physical self–helping us move faster, hit harder etc.
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Technology functions as an extension of our mental self–giving my mom in India a direct connection to me in Canada.
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It is a wormhole connecting people, worlds apart, mentally.
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But this experience, wormhole to the other side of the world is not what humans are used to.
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It would be mad if we could sit in a room full of people whose contacts we’ve saved on our phones.
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This ambient intimacy with the world distracts us from the people right in front of us, and distracts us from ourselves too–giving us less time for self-reflection.