Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
|
Your cart is empty |
|||
Showing 1 - 3 of 3 matches in All Departments
In Redefining Eternity: Interfacing Immortality in the Digital Corporate World, Bethany Crawford critically assesses the implications of “digital immortality” for central tenets of the human experience - such as consciousness, death, and time - as a preliminary mapping of the shifting existential paradigms of the digital age. This groundbreaking new book explores the social consequences and provocations of a digitally replicable subject in the current sociopolitical context. It thereby confronts a timeless philosophical question, imbued with ever greater urgency in our digital age: What does it mean to be human? Redefining Eternity establishes the motivations of digital and information technologies in creating “immortalization” through social and modal engagement with these new media. By analyzing various digital services currently promoting immortality, both intentionally and unintentionally, and engaging with texts by transhumanists and technologists such as Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt, and Max More, this endeavor allows for critical interpretation of the key terminologies, processes, and intentions for an immortal digital being. Crawford’s findings offer a dynamic foundation for conceptual analysis of the ramifications of “living forever” as a digital post-death self.
|
You may like...
Phishing Detection Using Content-Based…
Shekhar Khandelwal, Rik Das
Hardcover
R1,678
Discovery Miles 16 780
Sex in Advertising - Perspectives on the…
Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase
Hardcover
R4,006
Discovery Miles 40 060
Intelligent Learning for Computer Vision…
Harish Sharma, Mukesh Saraswat, …
Paperback
R7,384
Discovery Miles 73 840
Advanced Introduction to Law and…
Mariana M. Prado, Michael J. Trebilcock
Paperback
R777
Discovery Miles 7 770
The Deepest Well - Healing the Long-Term…
Nadine Burke Harris
Paperback
|