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Here Be Monsters
Paperback Edition: 1
From genetic engineering to Chat GPT, from cybersex to cyberwar, and from mood-altering pharmaceuticals to the widespread automation of work, new technologies are rewriting the terms of our existence. We celebrate this as progress but often these developments are in line with the priorities of power and profit. The bright young things of Silicon Valley celebrate their ability to move fast and break things. But what if new technologies are breaking us?
In this timely and provocative book, Richard King argues that modern societies need to develop a more critical attitude to new and emerging technologies. We need, he suggests, to rethink our relationship to our tools from a radically humanistic perspective, enlisting philosophy, anthropology and the arts in the fight against dehumanising machines. It is not enough to let the market decide which technologies are good for us. We need to ask what we want from technology. And the question of what we want is a question about who we are.
Pages : 352
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Publication date : 2023-05-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Australia, Technology: General Issues, Social Issues & Processes