The eleventh installment of Dominic Chen’s series Fermentation and Generation: The “Desire Path” — An Alternative to Information Technology, titled “The Object of Care”, has been published in the web magazine Plain living, high thinking.
In the experiment of living with Nukabot, participants began to perceive the nukadoko not merely as food, but as a vulnerable being that needed care. Through voice and language, the condition of the microorganisms became embodied, and Nukabot gradually developed its own character as it learned the words used in each place. At the same time, the experiment raised the question of whether the object of care was the nukadoko or the robot itself. Ultimately, Nukabot suggests the possibility of a “technology one can graduate from”: rather than making people dependent on it, it guides them toward learning to read microorganisms through their own senses.
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