1st Edition

Predicted Humans Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking

By Simona Chiodo Copyright 2024
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to mythology to philosophy, suggests that knowing one’s future may not be in the subject’s best... Read more

Introduction  1. To be predicted, or not to be predicted: that is the question  2. Death clocks and other emerging technologies to predict our future  3. Prediction and the automation of our future  4. Prediction and the unbearable burden of sensemaking  5. Should we have the right not to be predicted?  6. Concluding remarks: predicted humans, individualism and their future

Biography

Simona Chiodo is Professor of Philosophy at Politecnico di Milano. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Edinburgh, Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and spent research stays at Harvard University. She was also Academic Visitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the Technology Foresight Centre of Politecnico di Milano. Her last works focus on the relationship between technological innovation and human autonomy.