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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1 Time Hyperhistory
The three ages of human development
Instructions
Data
Memory
Connectivity
Conclusion
2 Space Infosphere
Technology’s in-betweenness
Interfaces
Design
The politics of technology
ICTs as interpreting and creating technologies
Life in the infosphere
Conclusion
3 Identity Onlife
ICTs as technologies of the self
Hyper-self-consciousness
The paradox of identity
Our informational nature
Embodiment: the self as an app
Being in space: location vs. presence
Being in time: outdating vs. ageing
Memories and interactions: pegging the self
Perception: the digital gaze
Bodies of information: e-health
e-ducation
Conclusion
4 Self-Understanding The Four Revolutions
The first three revolutions
The fourth revolution
Inforgs
Enhancing, augmenting, and re-engineering technologies
Conclusion
5 Privacy Informational Friction
The dearest of our possessions
Privacies as freedoms from
Informational friction
Anonymity
Empowerment
Why privacy matters
The self-constitutive value of privacy
Biometrics
Conclusion
6 Intelligence Inscribing the World
Shifting and decreasing intelligence
The stupidly smart
Turing Test and the Loebner Prize
The frame and the symbol grounding problems
A tale of two AIs
Conclusion
7 Agency Enveloping the World
An ICT-friendly environment
The machine’s use of human inforgs
Artificial companions
The Semantic Web and its syntactic engines
Web 2.0 and its semantic engines
Webs and the infosphere
Conclusion
8 Politics The Rise of the Multi-Agent Systems
Political apoptosis
A new informational order?
The political multi-agent system
Infraethics
Hyperhistorical conflicts and cyberwar
Conclusion
9 Environment The Digital Gambit
The costs and risks of the anthropocene
The gambit
Conclusion
10 Ethics E-nvironmentalism
Further Reading
References
Endnotes
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Index
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