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Virtual Lives - A New Kind of Human or a Post-Human?

Ong Kar Jin

23-Sep-19 21:00

Virtual Lives - A New Kind of Human or a Post-Human?

We spend so much of our time living in a space that takes on various degrees in semblance to reality - the digital world. What do we make of this world? How is it compelling us to rethink our commonplace notion of self and identity? Ong Kar Jin, full-time tech policy analyst, and amateur internet ethnographer introduces us to different facets of virtuality. He considers how this social form of consciousness-extension is both changing and reinforcing our understanding of what makes us human.

Produced by: Simon Soon, Haniff Baharudin

Presented by: Haniff Baharudin, Simon Soon


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Categories:  Technology,  Tech,  History,  People and Places,  Education

Tags:  Night School,  virtual lives,  technology,  digital persona,  virtual reality,  privacy, 


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