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The Fourth Revolution; How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality

TitelThe Fourth Revolution; How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
PublicatietypeBoek
Publicatiejaar2014
AuteursFloridi, L.
Pagina's272
Publicatiedatum06/2014
UitgeverOxford University Press
Plaats uitgaveOxford
TaalEN
ISBN Nummer978-0-19-960672-6
RefMan9831
Trefwoord(en)digital turn, digitale wende, hyperhistory, informatiefilosofie, onlife
Samenvatting
  • Considers the influence information and communication technologies (ICTs) are having on our world
  • Describes some of the latest developments in ICTs and their use in a range of fields
  • Argues that ICTs have become environmental forces that create and transform our realities
  • Explores the impact of ICTs in a range of areas, from education and scientific research to social interaction, and even war

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of figures
1: Hyperhistory
2: Space: Infosphere
3: Identity: Onlife
4: Self-Understanding: The Four Revolutions
5: Privacy: Informational Friction
6: Intelligence: Inscribing the World
7: Agency: Enveloping the World
8: Politics: The Rise of the Multi-Agent System
9: Environment: The Digital Gambit
10: Ethics: E-nvironmentalism
Further Reading
References
Endnotes
Index

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