Amber Case
American anthropologist
Amber Case (born 1986) is an American cyborg anthropologist, user experience designer and public speaker. She studies the interaction between humans and technology.
Biography
Case was born around 1986 in Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology from Lewis & Clark College in 2008, her undergraduate thesis analyzed the social consequences of the newly-released iPhone. In 2008, she co-founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and computers.
Case was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2012, and gave a 2010 TED talk called “We Are All Cyborgs Now”
In 2010, Case and Aaron Parecki founded Geoloqi, a location-based software company. The company was acquired by Esri in 2012. In 2015, Case left Esri to work for a new company called Healthways where she became the managing director.
In her work, Case often declares that we are all cyborgs already, as a cyborg is simply a human who interacts with technology. According to Case the technology doesn't necessarily need to be implanted: it can be a physical or mental extension.
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