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Growing moral relations
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Mark Coeckelbergh |
"New scientific and technological developments challenge us to reconsider the moral status of entities such as chimpanzees or artificially intelligent robots: what place should we give them in our mo… |
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New Dark Age
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James Bridle |
As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through compu… |
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Present shock
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Douglas Rushkoff |
"An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of "continuous now". Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to … |
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The dark side of technology
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Peter Townsend,P. D. Townsend |
Technological progress comes with a dark side where good ideas and intentions produce undesirable results. The many and various unexpected outcomes of technology span humorous to bizarre, and even re… |
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Essentials of Risk Theory
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Sabine Roeser |
Risk has become one of the main topics in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine and economics, and it is also studied by social scientists, psychologists and legal scholars. This Springer Essent… |
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Heidegger on ontotheology
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Iain D. Thomson |
Restoring Heidegger's understanding of metaphysics as 'ontotheology' to its rightful place at the center of his later thought, this book demonstrates the depth and significance of his controversial c… |
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Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense
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Robert E. Innis |
"Making sense of the world around us is a process involving both semiotic and material mediation - the use of signs and sign systems (preeminently language) and various kinds of tools (technics).".
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Meaning in Technology
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Arnold Pacey |
In previous books, Arnold Pacey has written about the role of ideas and ideals in the creation of technology, about the global history of technology, and about the complex interaction of political, c… |
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Operating manual for spaceship earth
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R. Buckminster Fuller |
Edited and re-released by Fuller's grandson, Jamie Snyder, this edition is true to the original manuscript but adds helpful footnotes providing a modern context to some of the figures and predictions… |
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