Steve Mann is a researcher and inventor best known for his work on computational photography and, more specifically, "wearable computing." It explores many ideas regarding the impact technology has on and upon us, consciously and unconsciously. In his essay “Existential Technology,” Mann attempts to explain to us how he describes “existential technology” as an incidental technology that controls our own destiny. Through some sassy comments, he explains how such existential technologies serve to empower us by relieving us of responsibility for our own actions, which serves as the basis for many of his social experiments referenced throughout the essay. Mann uses several of what he calls “in(ter)ventions” that serve as both interactive performances and social commentary. Incidentalist elements are also a key factor in many of Mann's arguments. One of the best and most relevant examples of this phenomenon can be found in its wearable technology “HeartCam”. Essentially it was a bra with two surveillance cameras and a heart rat...