Publication Date:
2024-04-08
Description:
Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; and the possibility to create artificial wombs may affect notions of motherhood and birth. Some have suggested that we address global warming by engineering the climate, but how does this impact our responsibility to future generations and our relation to nature?
This book shows how technologies can be socially and conceptually disruptive and investigates how to come to terms with this disruptive potential.
Four technologies are studied: social media, social robots, climate engineering and artificial wombs. The authors highlight the disruptive potential of these technologies, and the new questions this raises. The book also discusses responses to conceptual disruption, like conceptual engineering, the deliberate revision of concepts.
Keywords:
technology;society;artificial wombs;climate engineering;social media;social robots;artificial intelligence
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bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy
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bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture
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bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues
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bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences
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bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UB Information technology: general issues::UBJ Ethical & social aspects of IT
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy
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thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
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thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
Language:
English
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