THE INSTITUTE OF HUMANING & TECHNOLOGY
WTF happens when WTF happens when humans invent shit that changes how humans human?
And WTF happens when we start examining human life like a simulation?
Oh, and WTF is humaning?
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Toolmakers
Humans build the tools. The tools rebuild the humans.
From writing and machines to algorithms and AI, we investigate how technology changes what humans do, think, and experience.
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Simulations, Systems & Gameplay
Welcome to the human operating environment.
Roles. Rules. Resources. Objectives. Other players. Hidden mechanics. We use gaming and simulation perspectives to investigate WTF is actually happening.
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The Human–Technology Feedback Loop
The experiment keeps modifying the experimenters.
Human → technology → changed environment → changed human → repeat until WTF.
The human consequences are the fucking experiment.
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Around here, we investigate
Tools · machines · work · communication · attention · algorithms · internet culture · social media · automation · AI · relationships · cognition · surveillance · digital life · whatever humans invent next · humans
A governing question:
What did the tool or human enable—and WTF did humans subsequently do with it?