{"id":10800,"date":"2022-08-03T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hexagram.ca\/sensing-machines-de-chris-salter\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:05:07","slug":"sensing-machines-de-chris-salter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexagram.ca\/en\/sensing-machines-de-chris-salter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensing Machines, from Chris Salter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uk-background-muted uk-padding uk-panel\">\n<div class=\"uk-panel\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"uk-align-left uk-margin-remove-adjacent\" src=\"http:\/\/hexagram.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-03-at-5.30.53-PM.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Sensing Machines\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salter\u2019s new book, Sensing Machines, examines how we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive immersive art installations. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people\u2014in 2020, thirty to fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people), with more than a trillion expected in the next decade. Sensing technology turns our experience into data; but the book\u2019s story isn&#8217;t just about what these machines want from us, but what we want from them\u2014new sensations, the thrill of the uncanny, and magic that will transport us from our daily grind.<\/p>\n<p>This book was published in 2022 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/sensing-machines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT Press<\/a>, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life Salter\u2019s new book, Sensing Machines, examines how we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive immersive art installations. 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