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.
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