Brett Frischmann, Evan Selinger (New York Rochester Institute of Technology)

Re-Engineering Humanity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781108707640
• ISBN-10: 1108707645
• Artikelnr.: 57016674

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.