As a non-techie, I looked for where the natural and digital world where overlapping. We saw the role Twitter played in the Iranian elections in the Spring. Then Google made Facebook their pet. Kindle is rapidly causing booksellers to close down. The evolution of the iPhone and Blackberry continue to make our social life non-local. But for me, the temetic takeover got real when fans were openly pleading for instant replay in the World Series. I'll be discussing how events like those coupled with a growing cultural appetite for more technology has reached the point where temes are becoming a control parameter on our memetic lives. What can we do to adapt to this and how can keep the ghost in the machines?

I'll cite some of the interviews I did, gulp, on my internet radio show and some noted authors and experts I've interacted with about this topic as well as offer some interactive identity exercises to test our personal sense of somatic integrity.