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The 4th Revolution Audiobook by Luciano Floridi


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Title: The 4th Revolution
Subtitle: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
Author: Luciano Floridi
Narrator: Brian Holsopple
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-25-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Science & Technology, Technology
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Members Reviews:
Although addressing a delicate subject-matter
the author may have sacrified too much in the level of clarity nessary to adequately convey the full thrust of his thesis and its present reach and future implications. Thus, he is likely less effective in motivating readjustment in perspective or behavior of activists or policymakers than he is in modifiying or augmenting the semantics employed in related discourses amongst spectators.
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