ABSTRACT
In 1991 the Canadian sociologist Derrick De Kerckhove coined the term “psychotechnology” to define “any technology that emulates, extends, or amplifies sensory-motor, psychological or cognitive functions of the mind” (De Kerckhove 1991b, p. 132). According to De Kerckhove, underlying this definition there is a reflection about the emerging aspects of person-technology interaction, which evolves into the constitution of electronic sensory extensions of our central nervous system and externalizes cognitive functions able to extend the human mind. In this way, any technology is an object able to externalize a property of the body and it represents the amplification and the extension of the human mind connecting to other people’s cognitive processes (De Kerckhove 1990, 1991a, 2001).
