Huatong Sun
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744763
- eISBN:
- 9780199932993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744763.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Models and Architectures
This concluding chapter suggests future directions for the research and practice of cross-cultural technology in a glocalization age. Centering on a dialogical approach, it analyzes what the ...
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This concluding chapter suggests future directions for the research and practice of cross-cultural technology in a glocalization age. Centering on a dialogical approach, it analyzes what the cross-cultural design community could learn from the user localization efforts to design for, invoke, nurture, encourage, support, and sustain culturally localized user experience —the consummate experience—for emerging technologies. It studies the characteristics and value as well as the role and functions of user localization in a technology’s whole design, production, and use cycle and discusses how to route those user efforts into the design process to better address user needs and expectations in this rising participatory culture. Real-world examples are supplemented to further the discussion beyond the case study when needed.Less
This concluding chapter suggests future directions for the research and practice of cross-cultural technology in a glocalization age. Centering on a dialogical approach, it analyzes what the cross-cultural design community could learn from the user localization efforts to design for, invoke, nurture, encourage, support, and sustain culturally localized user experience —the consummate experience—for emerging technologies. It studies the characteristics and value as well as the role and functions of user localization in a technology’s whole design, production, and use cycle and discusses how to route those user efforts into the design process to better address user needs and expectations in this rising participatory culture. Real-world examples are supplemented to further the discussion beyond the case study when needed.
Anindya Ghose
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036276
- eISBN:
- 9780262340427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036276.003.0014
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Marketing
This chapter predicts that several emerging technologies will soon be integrated with the mobile ecosystem and further amplify the power of the nine forces discussed in this book. All these ...
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This chapter predicts that several emerging technologies will soon be integrated with the mobile ecosystem and further amplify the power of the nine forces discussed in this book. All these technologies will create captive audiences, enhance connectivity, harness more robust data from new sources, and offer better experiences. Business solutions will thrive in the mobile ecosystem, which will remain the hub for many applications and will power amazing business and societal solutions. Some of the biggest advancements will come via wearable technologies that will harness consumers' biometric, neurological, and physiological data, giving birth to a new force that leverages a consumer's physical state of being.Less
This chapter predicts that several emerging technologies will soon be integrated with the mobile ecosystem and further amplify the power of the nine forces discussed in this book. All these technologies will create captive audiences, enhance connectivity, harness more robust data from new sources, and offer better experiences. Business solutions will thrive in the mobile ecosystem, which will remain the hub for many applications and will power amazing business and societal solutions. Some of the biggest advancements will come via wearable technologies that will harness consumers' biometric, neurological, and physiological data, giving birth to a new force that leverages a consumer's physical state of being.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804700634
- eISBN:
- 9780804775007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804700634.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
This chapter examines emerging technologies that Japan has developed from its long experience with rockets and satellites, discussing the progress of Japan's efforts to develop the H-IIB, Galaxy ...
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This chapter examines emerging technologies that Japan has developed from its long experience with rockets and satellites, discussing the progress of Japan's efforts to develop the H-IIB, Galaxy Express, the Advanced Solid Rocket, and those rockets resulting from Ballistic Missile Defense. It also considers other space activities, particularly those focused on Reusable Launch Vehicles, scramjet research, and the ASNARO/Sasuke spy satellite. The chapter furthermore argues that the survival, viability, and profitability of some of Japan's emerging satellite and rocket technologies depend on securing a military angle.Less
This chapter examines emerging technologies that Japan has developed from its long experience with rockets and satellites, discussing the progress of Japan's efforts to develop the H-IIB, Galaxy Express, the Advanced Solid Rocket, and those rockets resulting from Ballistic Missile Defense. It also considers other space activities, particularly those focused on Reusable Launch Vehicles, scramjet research, and the ASNARO/Sasuke spy satellite. The chapter furthermore argues that the survival, viability, and profitability of some of Japan's emerging satellite and rocket technologies depend on securing a military angle.
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781529219203
- eISBN:
- 9781529219241
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529219203.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Science, Technology and Environment
This chapter reflects on the philosophical issues concerning the insight that we have always been cyborgs. Technology has always been a part of us, and this applies to the emerging technologies, too. ...
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This chapter reflects on the philosophical issues concerning the insight that we have always been cyborgs. Technology has always been a part of us, and this applies to the emerging technologies, too. The chapter argues that the judgements that nature is good and technology is evil are part of a traditional dualistic mindset which is no longer plausible and which has many dangerous implications. This does not mean that there are no dangers connected to emerging technologies. The more efficient a technology is, the better the advantages, but also the greater the risks. These can be terrible, given inappropriate political circumstances.Less
This chapter reflects on the philosophical issues concerning the insight that we have always been cyborgs. Technology has always been a part of us, and this applies to the emerging technologies, too. The chapter argues that the judgements that nature is good and technology is evil are part of a traditional dualistic mindset which is no longer plausible and which has many dangerous implications. This does not mean that there are no dangers connected to emerging technologies. The more efficient a technology is, the better the advantages, but also the greater the risks. These can be terrible, given inappropriate political circumstances.
Dieter Helm
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300186598
- eISBN:
- 9780300188646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300186598.003.0012
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This chapter explains that new technologies are required and that hence, R&D has to be a major element of climate change strategy. The new and emerging technologies may enable us to address the ...
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This chapter explains that new technologies are required and that hence, R&D has to be a major element of climate change strategy. The new and emerging technologies may enable us to address the climate change problem, provided that coal has not wreaked too much damage in the meantime. Technical developments focus on the temperatures for combustion, including so-called super-critical power stations. The coming of new information technologies provides an opportunity to make electricity an active system, thereby allowing the demand side of the market to come into play. In allocating resources to R&D, it is important to design R&D policy such that there is no attempt to overtly pick winners, but that resources are concentrated in promising areas. R&D creates public goods, and these need to be distributed as rapidly as possible around the globe, given that climate change is a global public bad.Less
This chapter explains that new technologies are required and that hence, R&D has to be a major element of climate change strategy. The new and emerging technologies may enable us to address the climate change problem, provided that coal has not wreaked too much damage in the meantime. Technical developments focus on the temperatures for combustion, including so-called super-critical power stations. The coming of new information technologies provides an opportunity to make electricity an active system, thereby allowing the demand side of the market to come into play. In allocating resources to R&D, it is important to design R&D policy such that there is no attempt to overtly pick winners, but that resources are concentrated in promising areas. R&D creates public goods, and these need to be distributed as rapidly as possible around the globe, given that climate change is a global public bad.
Paul B. Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035668
- eISBN:
- 9780262337991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035668.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Paul B. Thompson argues that defenders and critics of novel technologies share the same fundamental assumption that technological innovation is the key source of greater efficiency in production. ...
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Paul B. Thompson argues that defenders and critics of novel technologies share the same fundamental assumption that technological innovation is the key source of greater efficiency in production. Although they question how social institutions incentivize innovation and distribute benefits, innovation as such is always seen as a good thing -- except when it comes to certain emerging technologies: agricultural biotechnologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology. Then public perception is skeptical, negative, even outraged. Thompson turns to risk assessment to figure out what makes some technologies more disturbing than others. He examines the “social amplification of risk,” the cognitive and social phenomena that distort perception and cause people to see a situation as more risky that it is, other times as less risky. Thompson identifies two different approaches to the risk amplification: purification and hybridization. The former excludes irrational social fears, outrage, and distrust from a risk assessment; the latter takes these motivating influences seriously and incorporates them into a risk assessment. Thompson warns that purification can engender the suspicion that powerful actors are indifferent to social perceptions, and suggests that hybridization can be an effective response to the perception of environmental harms.Less
Paul B. Thompson argues that defenders and critics of novel technologies share the same fundamental assumption that technological innovation is the key source of greater efficiency in production. Although they question how social institutions incentivize innovation and distribute benefits, innovation as such is always seen as a good thing -- except when it comes to certain emerging technologies: agricultural biotechnologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology. Then public perception is skeptical, negative, even outraged. Thompson turns to risk assessment to figure out what makes some technologies more disturbing than others. He examines the “social amplification of risk,” the cognitive and social phenomena that distort perception and cause people to see a situation as more risky that it is, other times as less risky. Thompson identifies two different approaches to the risk amplification: purification and hybridization. The former excludes irrational social fears, outrage, and distrust from a risk assessment; the latter takes these motivating influences seriously and incorporates them into a risk assessment. Thompson warns that purification can engender the suspicion that powerful actors are indifferent to social perceptions, and suggests that hybridization can be an effective response to the perception of environmental harms.
Christina Dunbar-Hester
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028127
- eISBN:
- 9780262320498
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028127.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter follows radio activists’ assessments of emerging Internet-based technologies (primarily wi-fi networks). Particularly for urban areas where LPFM licenses were out of reach, the activists ...
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This chapter follows radio activists’ assessments of emerging Internet-based technologies (primarily wi-fi networks). Particularly for urban areas where LPFM licenses were out of reach, the activists considered other “appropriate technologies” to as platforms for community media. The chapter shows that radio activists were selective in their adoption of or resistance to various options, some of which they largely rejected (such as webcasting) and others of which they cautiously embraced (such as community wi-fi networks). Having identified radio as the artifact with which their politics best aligned, they were circumspect about the promotion of other technologies that were less obviously tied to the values they identified in radio.Less
This chapter follows radio activists’ assessments of emerging Internet-based technologies (primarily wi-fi networks). Particularly for urban areas where LPFM licenses were out of reach, the activists considered other “appropriate technologies” to as platforms for community media. The chapter shows that radio activists were selective in their adoption of or resistance to various options, some of which they largely rejected (such as webcasting) and others of which they cautiously embraced (such as community wi-fi networks). Having identified radio as the artifact with which their politics best aligned, they were circumspect about the promotion of other technologies that were less obviously tied to the values they identified in radio.
Debra J.H. Mathews
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198786832
- eISBN:
- 9780191839894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0001
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Techniques
Neuroethics is concerned with the ethical, legal, and policy issues raised by the neurosciences and their applications in medicine and society. However, neuroscience sometimes involves other emerging ...
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Neuroethics is concerned with the ethical, legal, and policy issues raised by the neurosciences and their applications in medicine and society. However, neuroscience sometimes involves other emerging biomedical technologies, such as genetics, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology, which generate their own ethics and policy conundrums. When emerging biomedical technologies converge or collide in a single project, application, or product, challenges are compounded. These challenges may be mitigated by the development of shared models for ethical analysis focused not on the details of a particular technology but rather on the nature of the class of technologies, such as whether they are emerging, rapidly evolving, and ethically contentious. These challenges and characteristics, and a framework approach to managing them, are the focus of this chapter.Less
Neuroethics is concerned with the ethical, legal, and policy issues raised by the neurosciences and their applications in medicine and society. However, neuroscience sometimes involves other emerging biomedical technologies, such as genetics, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology, which generate their own ethics and policy conundrums. When emerging biomedical technologies converge or collide in a single project, application, or product, challenges are compounded. These challenges may be mitigated by the development of shared models for ethical analysis focused not on the details of a particular technology but rather on the nature of the class of technologies, such as whether they are emerging, rapidly evolving, and ethically contentious. These challenges and characteristics, and a framework approach to managing them, are the focus of this chapter.
Roger Brownsword
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780197265642
- eISBN:
- 9780191760389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265642.003.0019
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
In a context of rapidly emerging technologies, this chapter considers the bearing of human dignity on the regulatory environment. It opens by suggesting that one of the reasons why moral communities ...
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In a context of rapidly emerging technologies, this chapter considers the bearing of human dignity on the regulatory environment. It opens by suggesting that one of the reasons why moral communities are now debating human dignity with such intensity is because of concerns arising from the rapid development of novel biotechnologies. Next, it considers how far it is possible to satisfy ideals of regulatory coherence when the regulation of emerging technologies hinges on our divided understanding of human dignity. Thirdly, it identifies two threats to human dignity that are immanent in modern regulatory thinking. One threat is a risk-management mentality that marginalizes (and possibly excludes) moral considerations; and the other is an over-reliance on technological instruments such that the complexion of the regulatory environment denies humans the opportunity to express their dignity.Less
In a context of rapidly emerging technologies, this chapter considers the bearing of human dignity on the regulatory environment. It opens by suggesting that one of the reasons why moral communities are now debating human dignity with such intensity is because of concerns arising from the rapid development of novel biotechnologies. Next, it considers how far it is possible to satisfy ideals of regulatory coherence when the regulation of emerging technologies hinges on our divided understanding of human dignity. Thirdly, it identifies two threats to human dignity that are immanent in modern regulatory thinking. One threat is a risk-management mentality that marginalizes (and possibly excludes) moral considerations; and the other is an over-reliance on technological instruments such that the complexion of the regulatory environment denies humans the opportunity to express their dignity.
Risa Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197535493
- eISBN:
- 9780197535530
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197535493.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
This chapter argues that adaptation of emerging technology—artificial intelligence (AI), among other forms—will introduce new stresses and tensions in civil-military relations across a variety of ...
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This chapter argues that adaptation of emerging technology—artificial intelligence (AI), among other forms—will introduce new stresses and tensions in civil-military relations across a variety of domains and contexts. Specifically, the analysis highlights four areas of potential stress. The first area is the organizational implications of technological change and innovation for military institutions and civilian actors. The second is the opportunities and obstacles emerging technology poses for civilian oversight of the military. A third area includes how the introduction of technology in advisory processes at the senior level may affect tensions in strategic assessment and the provision of military advice in those processes. A final issue is the evolving character of the profession of arms and the diminution of the military’s exclusive domain of expertise relative to civilian actors.Less
This chapter argues that adaptation of emerging technology—artificial intelligence (AI), among other forms—will introduce new stresses and tensions in civil-military relations across a variety of domains and contexts. Specifically, the analysis highlights four areas of potential stress. The first area is the organizational implications of technological change and innovation for military institutions and civilian actors. The second is the opportunities and obstacles emerging technology poses for civilian oversight of the military. A third area includes how the introduction of technology in advisory processes at the senior level may affect tensions in strategic assessment and the provision of military advice in those processes. A final issue is the evolving character of the profession of arms and the diminution of the military’s exclusive domain of expertise relative to civilian actors.
Shannon Vallor
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- August 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780190081713
- eISBN:
- 9780190081744
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190081713.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
This chapter identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the “good life”—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and ...
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This chapter identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the “good life”—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and destabilizing effects of emerging technologies on a global scale make the shape of the human future increasingly opaque and hard to fathom. The chapter suggests that this twenty-first-century challenge for ethics, which we can identify as a state of acute technosocial opacity, is best addressed from a particular philosophical tradition: virtue ethics. It argues that the classical traditions of Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist virtue ethics offer us more resources for managing this contemporary problem than do other, more modern moral theories. The chapter concludes that only the cultivation of distinctly technomoral virtues will preserve humanity’s chances to live well with emerging technologies, and flourish in an increasingly opaque future.Less
This chapter identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the “good life”—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and destabilizing effects of emerging technologies on a global scale make the shape of the human future increasingly opaque and hard to fathom. The chapter suggests that this twenty-first-century challenge for ethics, which we can identify as a state of acute technosocial opacity, is best addressed from a particular philosophical tradition: virtue ethics. It argues that the classical traditions of Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist virtue ethics offer us more resources for managing this contemporary problem than do other, more modern moral theories. The chapter concludes that only the cultivation of distinctly technomoral virtues will preserve humanity’s chances to live well with emerging technologies, and flourish in an increasingly opaque future.
marcia santana fernandes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199735365
- eISBN:
- 9780190267520
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199735365.003.0058
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter uses the film Artificial Intelligence (2002) to set the stage for a discussion of the ethics of emerging technologies. The film focuses on an 11-year-old artificial boy, David (Haley ...
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This chapter uses the film Artificial Intelligence (2002) to set the stage for a discussion of the ethics of emerging technologies. The film focuses on an 11-year-old artificial boy, David (Haley Joel Osment), who was created to give love without demands: he would need no food, no rest, no love in return. The film addresses questions such as: What is our responsibility toward our own creations? How can society deal with enhancement technologies applied to the human body? The chapter reflects on these topics from a bioethical standpoint, and argues that responsibility and humility should guide medical activity, as illustrated in parts of the Hippocratic Oath. Emerging technologies and their applications to health care should not be subjected to wholesale legislative limitations, regardless of context or culture. Law-making must be interdisciplinary, intimately involved in the discussion of and reflection on bioethical issues, in order to deal with their complexity as well as their social aspects and peculiarities.Less
This chapter uses the film Artificial Intelligence (2002) to set the stage for a discussion of the ethics of emerging technologies. The film focuses on an 11-year-old artificial boy, David (Haley Joel Osment), who was created to give love without demands: he would need no food, no rest, no love in return. The film addresses questions such as: What is our responsibility toward our own creations? How can society deal with enhancement technologies applied to the human body? The chapter reflects on these topics from a bioethical standpoint, and argues that responsibility and humility should guide medical activity, as illustrated in parts of the Hippocratic Oath. Emerging technologies and their applications to health care should not be subjected to wholesale legislative limitations, regardless of context or culture. Law-making must be interdisciplinary, intimately involved in the discussion of and reflection on bioethical issues, in order to deal with their complexity as well as their social aspects and peculiarities.
Shannon Vallor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190498511
- eISBN:
- 9780190498542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190498511.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
Starting with an overview of virtue ethics in the philosophical tradition of the West, beginning with Aristotle, I discuss the contemporary revival of virtue ethics in the West (and its critics). In ...
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Starting with an overview of virtue ethics in the philosophical tradition of the West, beginning with Aristotle, I discuss the contemporary revival of virtue ethics in the West (and its critics). In reviewing virtue ethics’ advantages over other traditional ethical approaches, especially consequentialism (such as utilitarianism) and deontology (such as Kantian ethics), I note that virtue ethics is ideally suited for managing complex, novel, and unpredictable moral landscapes, just the kind of landscape that today’s emerging technologies present. Yet I also note that an exclusively Western approach to virtue would be inadequate and provincial; moreover, emerging technologies present global problems requiring collective action across cultural and political lines. Finally, I review the various ways in which contemporary philosophers of technology have addressed the ethical dimensions of technology, the limits of those previous approaches, and the potential of a global technosocial virtue ethic to go beyond them.Less
Starting with an overview of virtue ethics in the philosophical tradition of the West, beginning with Aristotle, I discuss the contemporary revival of virtue ethics in the West (and its critics). In reviewing virtue ethics’ advantages over other traditional ethical approaches, especially consequentialism (such as utilitarianism) and deontology (such as Kantian ethics), I note that virtue ethics is ideally suited for managing complex, novel, and unpredictable moral landscapes, just the kind of landscape that today’s emerging technologies present. Yet I also note that an exclusively Western approach to virtue would be inadequate and provincial; moreover, emerging technologies present global problems requiring collective action across cultural and political lines. Finally, I review the various ways in which contemporary philosophers of technology have addressed the ethical dimensions of technology, the limits of those previous approaches, and the potential of a global technosocial virtue ethic to go beyond them.
Shannon Vallor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190498511
- eISBN:
- 9780190498542
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190498511.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
This book explores the implications of emerging technologies for the future of the human family, in particular our growing and urgent need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtue—specific ...
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This book explores the implications of emerging technologies for the future of the human family, in particular our growing and urgent need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtue—specific qualities of character that humans need in order to live wisely and well with the uncertainty and complexity of a rapidly changing technosocial environment. Part I identifies global challenges for the human family presented by emerging technologies and the rapid cultural and institutional shifts they trigger, presenting the philosophical tradition of virtue ethics as the most promising practical resource for learning how to cope with, and even flourish in, our increasingly uncertain and risky technosocial condition. Part II finds guidance for this ambition in the classical virtue traditions of Aristotle, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which offer practical frameworks for the cultivation of virtue that resonate even across cultural and historical boundaries. Part II also explores the basic structure of this human practice and how it might be adapted for contemporary technosocial life, and concludes with an account of twelve technomoral virtues, the global cultivation of which represents humanity’s best and perhaps only chance of having a future worth wanting. Part III applies this account of technomoral virtue to four emerging technologies that are radically reshaping the human condition: new social media, digital surveillance, robotics, and biomedical enhancement. The risks and opportunities for human flourishing created by these technologies can only be managed by the wider cultivation of those virtues, which together constitute technomoral wisdom.Less
This book explores the implications of emerging technologies for the future of the human family, in particular our growing and urgent need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtue—specific qualities of character that humans need in order to live wisely and well with the uncertainty and complexity of a rapidly changing technosocial environment. Part I identifies global challenges for the human family presented by emerging technologies and the rapid cultural and institutional shifts they trigger, presenting the philosophical tradition of virtue ethics as the most promising practical resource for learning how to cope with, and even flourish in, our increasingly uncertain and risky technosocial condition. Part II finds guidance for this ambition in the classical virtue traditions of Aristotle, Confucianism, and Buddhism, which offer practical frameworks for the cultivation of virtue that resonate even across cultural and historical boundaries. Part II also explores the basic structure of this human practice and how it might be adapted for contemporary technosocial life, and concludes with an account of twelve technomoral virtues, the global cultivation of which represents humanity’s best and perhaps only chance of having a future worth wanting. Part III applies this account of technomoral virtue to four emerging technologies that are radically reshaping the human condition: new social media, digital surveillance, robotics, and biomedical enhancement. The risks and opportunities for human flourishing created by these technologies can only be managed by the wider cultivation of those virtues, which together constitute technomoral wisdom.
Peter Drahos
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197534755
- eISBN:
- 9780197534786
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197534755.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Asian Politics
The success of the project of survival governance, which requires states to focus on the repair of ecosystems, depends on the success of China’s experimental cities and whether China can manage to ...
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The success of the project of survival governance, which requires states to focus on the repair of ecosystems, depends on the success of China’s experimental cities and whether China can manage to develop core technologies in the face of opposition from the US national security state. The technologies that are central to the construction of the bio-digital energy paradigm are also the ones that matter to US military power. The United States is using regulatory mechanisms such as intellectual property and export controls to block or slow China’s acquisition of core technologies. The United States has already created a technological fork in global technology markets, making it more or less impossible for companies like Google to deal with Chinese companies like Huawei. Less clear is whether multinational capital will support this fork. It may choose to support the new circuits of accumulation that emerge as states embrace survival governance.Less
The success of the project of survival governance, which requires states to focus on the repair of ecosystems, depends on the success of China’s experimental cities and whether China can manage to develop core technologies in the face of opposition from the US national security state. The technologies that are central to the construction of the bio-digital energy paradigm are also the ones that matter to US military power. The United States is using regulatory mechanisms such as intellectual property and export controls to block or slow China’s acquisition of core technologies. The United States has already created a technological fork in global technology markets, making it more or less impossible for companies like Google to deal with Chinese companies like Huawei. Less clear is whether multinational capital will support this fork. It may choose to support the new circuits of accumulation that emerge as states embrace survival governance.
Jamais A. Cascio
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226422954
- eISBN:
- 9780226423142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226423142.003.0016
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
What would a sustainable future look like? This chapter explores three 50-year scenarios of how we may develop a globally sustainable society and what each might foretell for national parks. ...
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What would a sustainable future look like? This chapter explores three 50-year scenarios of how we may develop a globally sustainable society and what each might foretell for national parks. Professional foresight, or “futurism,” surveys the dynamics of change across disciplines in order to construct scenarios of future changes to society. Foresight scenarios are not intended to be predictions, but examinations of different ways in which current trends and likely future developments may co-evolve. Such scenarios can illuminate options and highlight unexpected challenges for decision-makers. In this endeavor, scenarios of success can be as useful as scenarios of risk. The narratives in this chapter consider a future for national parks in three scenarios; each attempts to illustrate how we might succeed in overcoming the global sustainability crisis, in direct response to the dominance of apocalyptic narratives in popular discussions of sustainability. The first describes a future in which sustainability emerges from increased control over the economy by global institutions. The second describes a future in which, subsequent to a global climate disaster, civil society creates new institutions through open-source and collaborative tools. The third describes a future in which radical technological developments allow for unprecedented social, economic, and environmental transformation.Less
What would a sustainable future look like? This chapter explores three 50-year scenarios of how we may develop a globally sustainable society and what each might foretell for national parks. Professional foresight, or “futurism,” surveys the dynamics of change across disciplines in order to construct scenarios of future changes to society. Foresight scenarios are not intended to be predictions, but examinations of different ways in which current trends and likely future developments may co-evolve. Such scenarios can illuminate options and highlight unexpected challenges for decision-makers. In this endeavor, scenarios of success can be as useful as scenarios of risk. The narratives in this chapter consider a future for national parks in three scenarios; each attempts to illustrate how we might succeed in overcoming the global sustainability crisis, in direct response to the dominance of apocalyptic narratives in popular discussions of sustainability. The first describes a future in which sustainability emerges from increased control over the economy by global institutions. The second describes a future in which, subsequent to a global climate disaster, civil society creates new institutions through open-source and collaborative tools. The third describes a future in which radical technological developments allow for unprecedented social, economic, and environmental transformation.
C. M. Woolgar
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300181913
- eISBN:
- 9780300182361
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300181913.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
This book shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, the book charts how ...
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This book shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, the book charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavours and trends from abroad had an impact on eating habits across the social spectrum. The book begins with a background of the concept of food in medieval England, and moves through discussions on food in the countryside, the importance of drinks and drinking to late medieval society, the importance of bread, the role of sauces and spices, gardens, food and drink at civic occasions, food of monks and nuns, cooks and kitchens, and hunger and famine. From the pauper's bowl to elite tables, from early fad diets to the perceived moral superiority of certain foods, and from regional folk remedies to luxuries such as lampreys, the book illuminates desire, necessity, daily rituals, and pleasure across four centuries.Less
This book shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, the book charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavours and trends from abroad had an impact on eating habits across the social spectrum. The book begins with a background of the concept of food in medieval England, and moves through discussions on food in the countryside, the importance of drinks and drinking to late medieval society, the importance of bread, the role of sauces and spices, gardens, food and drink at civic occasions, food of monks and nuns, cooks and kitchens, and hunger and famine. From the pauper's bowl to elite tables, from early fad diets to the perceived moral superiority of certain foods, and from regional folk remedies to luxuries such as lampreys, the book illuminates desire, necessity, daily rituals, and pleasure across four centuries.
Brad Mehlenbacher
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013949
- eISBN:
- 9780262289634
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013949.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The perpetual connectivity made possible by twenty-first-century technology has profoundly affected instruction and learning. Emerging technologies that upend traditional notions of communication and ...
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The perpetual connectivity made possible by twenty-first-century technology has profoundly affected instruction and learning. Emerging technologies that upend traditional notions of communication and community also influence the ways we design and evaluate instruction, and how we understand learning and learning environments. This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the dynamic relationship between technology and learning, and describes how today’s ubiquitous technology conflates our once-separated learning worlds—work, leisure, and higher educational spaces. The author reviews the ongoing cross-disciplinary conversation about learning with technology and distance education, and examines a dozen models of instruction and learning with technology drawn from peer-reviewed research. Taking an integrative approach to design, he offers a framework for everyday instructional situations, describing five interdependent dimensions: Learner background and knowledge, learner tasks and activities, social dynamics, instructor activities, and learning environment and artifacts. The technologies that distribute today’s classroom across time and space call for a discussion about what we value in the traditional classroom. The book lays the groundwork for the long-term multidisciplinary investigation, which is required as researchers and practitioners shape and extend the boundaries of this emerging field.Less
The perpetual connectivity made possible by twenty-first-century technology has profoundly affected instruction and learning. Emerging technologies that upend traditional notions of communication and community also influence the ways we design and evaluate instruction, and how we understand learning and learning environments. This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the dynamic relationship between technology and learning, and describes how today’s ubiquitous technology conflates our once-separated learning worlds—work, leisure, and higher educational spaces. The author reviews the ongoing cross-disciplinary conversation about learning with technology and distance education, and examines a dozen models of instruction and learning with technology drawn from peer-reviewed research. Taking an integrative approach to design, he offers a framework for everyday instructional situations, describing five interdependent dimensions: Learner background and knowledge, learner tasks and activities, social dynamics, instructor activities, and learning environment and artifacts. The technologies that distribute today’s classroom across time and space call for a discussion about what we value in the traditional classroom. The book lays the groundwork for the long-term multidisciplinary investigation, which is required as researchers and practitioners shape and extend the boundaries of this emerging field.
Shannon Vallor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190498511
- eISBN:
- 9780190498542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190498511.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
The introduction identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the ‘good life’—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and ...
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The introduction identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the ‘good life’—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and destabilizing effects of emerging technologies on a global scale make the shape of the human future increasingly opaque and hard to fathom. I suggest that this 21st century challenge for ethics, which I identify as a state of acute technosocial opacity, is best addressed from a particular philosophical tradition: virtue ethics. Surprisingly, the classical traditions of Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist virtue ethics offer us invaluable resources for managing our distinctly contemporary problem, as the remainder of the book will show. The introduction closes with an expression of hope that cultivating the technomoral virtues will allow humanity to live together more wisely with the emerging technologies that will shape our future.Less
The introduction identifies the growing difficulty of making ethical decisions—choices that aim at the ‘good life’—in our present human condition, one in which the unpredictable, complex, and destabilizing effects of emerging technologies on a global scale make the shape of the human future increasingly opaque and hard to fathom. I suggest that this 21st century challenge for ethics, which I identify as a state of acute technosocial opacity, is best addressed from a particular philosophical tradition: virtue ethics. Surprisingly, the classical traditions of Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist virtue ethics offer us invaluable resources for managing our distinctly contemporary problem, as the remainder of the book will show. The introduction closes with an expression of hope that cultivating the technomoral virtues will allow humanity to live together more wisely with the emerging technologies that will shape our future.
Shannon Vallor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190498511
- eISBN:
- 9780190498542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190498511.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
This chapter integrates the lessons of Part III regarding moral practice, and takes up the challenge of adapting the practice to contemporary technosocial needs—specifically, the need for the global ...
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This chapter integrates the lessons of Part III regarding moral practice, and takes up the challenge of adapting the practice to contemporary technosocial needs—specifically, the need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtues. The bulk of this chapter is a taxonomy of twelve such virtues: technomoral honesty, self-control, humility, justice, courage, empathy, care, civility, flexibility, perspective, magnanimity, and their integration in the comprehensive virtue of technomoral wisdom. While each virtue is examined against the background of prior moral philosophies and traditional cultures, the emphasis in chapter 6 is on adapting and redefining each of these virtues as called for by the acute technomoral needs of the global human family in the present. Various examples illustrate their relevance to concrete ethical challenges presented by today’s emerging technologies, from new social media and ‘Big Data’ to robotics and digital surveillance.Less
This chapter integrates the lessons of Part III regarding moral practice, and takes up the challenge of adapting the practice to contemporary technosocial needs—specifically, the need for the global cultivation of technomoral virtues. The bulk of this chapter is a taxonomy of twelve such virtues: technomoral honesty, self-control, humility, justice, courage, empathy, care, civility, flexibility, perspective, magnanimity, and their integration in the comprehensive virtue of technomoral wisdom. While each virtue is examined against the background of prior moral philosophies and traditional cultures, the emphasis in chapter 6 is on adapting and redefining each of these virtues as called for by the acute technomoral needs of the global human family in the present. Various examples illustrate their relevance to concrete ethical challenges presented by today’s emerging technologies, from new social media and ‘Big Data’ to robotics and digital surveillance.