Cité du design - Bâtiments H

In this age of internet objects, digital data creates an environment where information travels from object to object without requiring human intervention. Objects are equipped to change, to adapt and to "understand" their user and their context. The notion of "singularity" designates the moment when the computer leads humanity into a technical spiral that it no longer controls. The futurologist Ray Kurzweil predicts that this singularity will occur around 2030. Will humanity therefore be intellectually dominated by its own machines? Should we be organizing resistance to these machines, or moving towards a merger in order to access a new form of humanity?

It is this last solution which seems to have been retained: our smart-phones are extensions of our thinking faculties and the possibilities of corporal prostheses are multiplying (heightened vision glasses, RFID chips, etc.). But the machine is also a reflexive tool which enables us to see ourselves and to understand others in a different manner. The Singularity exhibition concentrates on three themes: self-experience, the other's experience, and experiencing "an other". Three themes which enable visitors to apprehend digital empathy through the discovery and experimentation of the proposed objects.