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.
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How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
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ISBN
9780191667701
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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