Heidegger proved right...up to a point.

[sensaes]

"An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves. The findings come from a deceptively simple study of people using a computer mouse rigged to malfunction. The resulting disruption in attention wasn’t superficial. It seemingly extended to

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[herne_kzn]

Have you read much of the distrubuted congnition clan? Been working through Andy Clark recently.

[sensaes]

Some. Mark Perry was doing interesting work at Brunel on Activity Theory, but DC has become one of those ubiquitous magnets for anything which seems to fit, even if - upon closer inspection - it doesn't.