The notion of human attention as a limited resource in the management of massive amounts of information and entertainment. As human attention can focus on a limited set of items of information at any given time, it turns into a limiting factor in the consumption of content.

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Jun 18, 2017

Cypherpunk

The notion of preserving and enhancing personal privacy by building and/or using anonymous systems, electronic money, unregulated cryptography, and digital signatures.

Term coined by Jude Milhon

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Jun 17, 2017

Cyborg

A synthetic or natural biological organism that recurrently fulfills needs via artificial non-biological digital elements, being such elements independent or applied as enhancements to any of the physical parts of the organism.

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Jun 17, 2017

Bioroid

A synthetic or genetically engineered biological organism that has been engineered to have similar or superior capabilities to a biological entity created by natural means, usually humans.

See Android | Droid
See Automaton
See Cyborg
See Robot
See Transhumanism

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Jun 17, 2017

Android | Droid

A robot with a faithful humanoid appearance designed to blend into a human environment and mimic the experience of human-to-human interaction, both visually and by other means.

See Automaton
See Bioroid
See Cyborg
See Robot

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Jun 17, 2017

Automaton

An autonomous or semi-autonomous machine capable of carrying out a single operation, or a few of them limited in complexity, according to predetermined instructions.

Automatons have low or zero interaction capability and are considered the primitive predecessors of robots.

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Apr 30, 2017

Extratextual

Meaning that is created not in the cultural object being experienced, but in another cultural object, being up to the audience to recognize the reference and understand its hidden significance.

A common extratextual is an allusion to a character of another narrative,

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Apr 2, 2017

Doxing

Is the practice of researching and acquiring private or identifiable information about an individual or organization, and sometimes broadcasting it as well.

The methods to retrieve that information include, among others, searching publicly available databases and social media websites, and…

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Apr 2, 2017

Empty Spaces

An approach to technology production and interaction that does not rely on a screen as main interface between them and their users, giving the resulting output a “cloak of invisibility” to the naked eye that makes it pass unnoticed and give it a misleading sense of privacy.