Wearables — steps toward a cyborg future?

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New technologies require a new way of thinking. Human beings have to feel their way towards that new way of thinking. At the moment, we are feeling our way towards the ways of thinking required for wearable technology

After using the Apple Watch for a week, Mike Elgan writes in Computerworld that he feels that the Apple Watch may point the way to some significant new ways of interacting with wearable technology.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2920305/wearables/the-apple-watch-and-our-cyborg-future.html

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