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The Fourth Revolution Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford)

The Fourth Revolution By Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford)

Summary

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. Are our technologies going to enable and empower us, or constrain us?

The Fourth Revolution Summary

The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality by Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford)

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an infosphere. Personas we adopt in social media, for example, feed into our 'real' lives so that we begin to live, as Floridi puts in, onlife. Following those led by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud, this metaphysical shift represents nothing less than a fourth revolution. Onlife defines more and more of our daily activity - the way we shop, work, learn, care for our health, entertain ourselves, conduct our relationships; the way we interact with the worlds of law, finance, and politics; even the way we conduct war. In every department of life, ICTs have become environmental forces which are creating and transforming our realities. How can we ensure that we shall reap their benefits? What are the implicit risks? Are our technologies going to enable and empower us, or constrain us? Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new challenges posed by our digital technologies and information society.

About Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford)

Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford. Among his recognitions, he has been appointed the Gauss Professor by the Academy of Sciences in Gottingen, and is recipient of the APA's Barwise Prize, AISB Fellowship, the IACAP's Covey Award, the INSEIT's Weizenbaum Award, and the BCS Fellowship. He is Editor in Chief of Philosophy & Technology and was Chairman of EU Commission's 'Onlife' research group. He is the author of Information: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2010) and The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011).

Table of Contents

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of figures ; 1. Hyperhistory ; 2. Space: Infosphere ; 3. Identity: Onlife ; 4. Self-Understanding: The Four Revolutions ; 5. Privacy: Informational Friction ; 6. Intelligence: Inscribing the World ; 7. Agency: Enveloping the World ; 8. Politics: The Rise of the Multi-Agent System ; 9. Environment: The Digital Gambit ; 10. Ethics: E-nvironmentalism ; Further Reading ; References ; Endnotes ; Index

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9780198743934
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The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality by Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford)
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Oxford University Press
20160324
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