Hack 17. Build an Exoself

Hack 17. Build an Exoself: "Hack 17. Build an Exoself

Take a Hipster PDA, combine it with a pocket countdown timer called the MotivAider, and gain better control of your thoughts, emotions, and activities.

Science fiction writer Greg Egan explores the concept of the exoself in some of his novels. In Permutation City, he defines it as 'sophisticated, but nonconscious, supervisory software which could reach into...brain and body and fine-tune any part of it as required.'1 In a later novel, Diaspora, he describes the exoself's outlook component: 'software that could run inside your exoself and reinforce the qualities that you valued most, if and when you felt the need for such an anchor.'2"