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? 

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

Got a WTF the WTFU should investigate?