Tempest is a keen advocate of the open source community, working with artists, writers, and technologists to create new experiences and research the practical uses of the technology of illusion.
This technology, called illusion optics, draws on the same principles behind invisibility cloaks, which were first unveiled in 2006.
magicLab, a New York-based creative lab that researches the combined potential of technology and illusion, joined forces with drone dance master Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi of Rhizomatiks Research, a creative team from Tokyo, to create the video below, 24 Drone Flight.
The authors describe two other possible scenarios: robust coexistence of the two technologies, and the illusion of resistance (the old technology seems competitive for some time but quickly succumbs once the new technology's ecosystem is ready to roll).
Third, and most crucial, technology perpetuates the illusion that business as usual is a viable proposition.
Even as NTT's software moved to new physical hardware, Nicira's technology maintained the illusion that nothing had changed.
Such sentimental whining undermines the larger and important points she wants to make in this volume — the notion that technology offers the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy and communication without emotional risk, while actually making people feel lonelier and more overwhelmed.
Astoria, Queens has been home to filmmaking since technology conferred the illusion of movement onto a series of still photographs.
But modern technology allows optical illusions to be finely crafted indeed.
Add to the mix the potential for affective computing; the ability for a computer device to recognise your facial expression or predict your mood through your gestures or body pose and respond appropriately; increasingly sophisticated language recognition and speech production technologies, and this illusion of humanity will become even stronger.
