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Cyborg Anthropology

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Profile on TED.com. Amber Case. Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now. 30 Under 30 List: Amber Case and Aaron Parecki, Geoloqi. As graduation from Lewis and Clark neared for Amber Case―a computer scientist turned sociology major who dubbed herself a "cyborg anthropologist"―a pang of fear struck: How would she continue a path of learning in a world not structured by course credits?

30 Under 30 List: Amber Case and Aaron Parecki, Geoloqi

To conquer it, she set up a semester-like timeline of goals to reach within five years. The first objective was perhaps the trickiest: Find a co-founder with a compatible personality and interests, but a diametrically opposed skill set. "The way I found him was very anthropologic: I tried to calculate the possibility of him existing," Case said. (13) Amber Case. Amber Case. Biography Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and the founder of Geoloqi, Inc., a company bringing the future of location to the world.

Amber Case

She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds.