Re-Engineering Humanity

Innovation has a dark side. The price of progress is that humans are becoming increasingly predictable, programmable, and machine-like.

Table des matières

Foreword Nicholas Carr; Introduction; Part I: 1. Engineering humans; 2. Cogs in the machine of our own lives; 3. Techno-social engineering creep and the slippery-sloped path; Part II: 4. Tools for engineering humans; 5. Engineering humans with contracts; 6. On extending minds and mind control; 7. The path to smart techno-social environments; 8. Techno-social engineering of humans through smart environments; 9. #RelationshipOptimization; Part III: 10. Turing tests and the line between humans and machines; 11. Can humans be engineered to be incapable of thinking?; 12. Engineered determinism and free will; 13. To what end?; Part IV: 14. Conclusion: reimagining and building alternative futures.

A propos de l'auteur

Brett Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, at Villanova University. He is also an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, Politecnico di Torino. He has published foundational books on the relationships between infrastructural resources, governance, commons, and spillovers, including Governing Medical Knowledge Commons, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg (Cambridge, 2017); Governing Knowledge Commons, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg (2014); and Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (2012).

Résumé

With interdisciplinary breadth, scholarly depth, and clear, evocative, and resonant writing, Re-Engineering Humanity explains how technology threatens our humanity, endangers the future of our society, and can be changed for the better.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Brett Frischmann, Brett Selinger Frischmann, Frischmann Brett, Evan Selinger, Evan (Rochester Institute of Technology Selinger, Selinger Evan
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108707640
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70764-0
• Pages: 434
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Droit > Général, dictionnaires; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Law & society, International economic & trade law, Law and society, sociology of law, Public international law: economic and trade