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Accessible and compelling,
Relationships 5.0 reveals the ongoing epochal change in human relationships towards technology meant to fulfill emotional, intellectual, and physical needs that have until now been met by other humans.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: A Brief History of Our Personal Lives
- 1. Hunter-Gatherer Society and Relationships 1.0
- 2. Agricultural Society and Relationships 2.0
- 3. Industrial Society and Relationships 3.0
- 4. Information Society and Relationships 4.0
- Part II: Relationships 5.0 and the Three Revolutions in the Making
- 5. AI and The Cognitive Revolution
- 6. VR, AR, and the Sensorial Revolution
- 7. Robots and the Physical Revolution
- 8. Conclusions and Implications
- References
- Index
About the author
Elyakim Kislev is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University, specializing in minorities, social policy, relationships, and singles studies. He received the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellowship and the Award for Outstanding Fulbright Scholars.
Summary
A trailblazing inquiry into human love and relationships in the age of super-smart technology
Technology is our new life partner. No longer confined to the sidelines, new interactive technologies like AI therapists, avatar friends, and robot assistants are ready to transform technology's role from basic tools of convenience to intimate elements of our social and emotional lives. This turn towards human-like technology signals the beginning of a new epoch in human history, a change already facing both excitement and resistance.
Blending science, sociology, history, and psychology, Relationships 5.0 asks how recent technological developments cause us to think differently about our family lives, love affairs, and emotional needs. It argues that we are currently living through a technological paradigm shift similar in magnitude to the preceding agricultural, industrial, and informational revolutions in human history. Thanks to the convergence of the cognitive revolution (AI), the sensorial revolution (VR and AR), and the physical revolution (robots), technology can now fulfill emotional, intellectual, and physical needs that have until now been met by other humans.
While many are still wary of human-technology companionship, Relationships 5.0 reveals that these novel interactions aren't as risky as we'd once thought, but can instead make our social and emotional lives richer and more diverse. Still, we must ask: What will the age of Relationships 5.0 look like? How should we prepare for such an age? Who might already be ready to embrace these changes, and why?
Guiding readers away from fear and toward a new reality, Relationships 5.0 exposes the fundamental questions behind such essentials as companionship, trust, and love--and offers fascinating and revealing ideas about what the coming years will look like.
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His perspective is compelling and particularly relevant in an era marked by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence technology, making this book an excellent starting point for those who find themselves perplexed by the prospects of future human-machine relationships.
