The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human RealityOUP Oxford, 26 jun 2014 - 256 pagina's Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an "infosphere". Personas we adopt in social media, for example, feed into our 'real' lives so that we begin to live, as Floridi puts in, "onlife". Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. "Onlife" defines more and more of our daily activity - the way we shop, work, learn, care for our health, entertain ourselves, conduct our relationships; the way we interact with the worlds of law, finance, and politics; even the way we conduct war. In every department of life, ICTs have become environmental forces which are creating and transforming our realities. How can we ensure that we shall reap their benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable and empower us, or constrain us? Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new challenges posed by our digital technologies and information society. |
Inhoudsopgave
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SPACE Infosphere | 25 |
IDENTITY Onlife | 59 |
SELFUNDERSTANDING The Four Revolutions | 87 |
PRIVACY Informational Friction | 101 |
INTELLIGENCE Inscribing the World | 129 |
AGENCY Enveloping the World | 144 |
POLITICS The Rise of the MultiAgent Systems | 167 |
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The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality Luciano Floridi Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2014 |
The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality Luciano Floridi Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Alice Alice’s already anonymity answer artefacts available online become behaviour better big data CAPTCHA Chapter cloud computing conceptual consider contexts culture cyber cyberwar devices digital ICTs environment ethical example Facebook Floridi fourth revolution future gambit global Google hence Human–computer interaction hyperhistorical hyperhistorical societies ICTs in-betweenness increasing increasingly information agent information society informational friction informational privacy infosphere infraethics infrastructure intelligence interactions interface Internet interpretation less living machine means memory metatechnological million multi-agent system nature one’s onlife experience ourselves personal identity phenomenon philosophy philosophy of information physical political multi-agent system problem prompter protocol question rely require risks robot second-order technologies Semantic Web sense smart smartphone social media Source strategy strong AI things third-order technologies tion transformations transparent Turing Test understand user’s virtual Washington Consensus Wikipedia zettabyte