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Toward Post Ageing - Technology in an Ageing Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Toward Post Ageing - Technology in an Ageing Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Healthy Ageing and Longevity, 1
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This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies
that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the
ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and
counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a
reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded in a
post-human vision for a post-biological future. The book presents a
provocative interdisciplinary meta-analysis that contrasts
paradigms with inflection points, making the case that society has
entered a new inflection point, provisionally labeled as Post
Ageing. It goes on to discuss the moderate and radical versions of
this inflection point and the philosophical issues that need to be
addressed with the advent of post ageing activities: postponing and
possibly ending ageing, primarily through technological advances.
This book will be a valuable resource for professionals who wish to
review the continuum of varied constructs and intersects of
technologies ranging from those purporting to enhance the
activities of daily living in older adults, to those that would
enable the older worker to stay competitive in the labor market, to
those that propose to extend longevity and ultimately, claim to
transcend ageing itself-moving toward a transhumanistic domain and
more specifically, a post-ageing inflection point.
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