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Save the Humans

How to Survive

Mieke Gerritzen author Koert Van Mensvoort author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:BIS Publishers B.V.

Published:21st Dec '15

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Smart Phones, Healthcare Robots, Wearable Computers and Self-Driving Cars. They are arriving or already exists. We are becoming increasingly intimate with the machines that constantly count, control and watch the way we live. How can the growing world population of more than 7 billion people create a humane life for everyone? Let's find the errors and the holes in the technosphere that will give us space for free and creative thinking. What's at stake here is the remains of human agency. Let's use the brain pixels that are not taken yet. And Save the Humans!

What is the significance of independent thinking in the networked society where everything and everyone is connected? What is the influence of technology on humanity? This book offers a selection of quotes that question the autonomy of mankind in the digital computer era, and study the future of the independent creative spirit.Smart Phones, Healthcare Robots, Wearable Computers and Self Driving Cars. They are arriving or already exists. We are becoming increasingly intimate with the machines that constantly count, control and watch the way we live. How can the growing world population of more than 7 billion people create a humane life for everyone? Let's find the errors and the holes in the technosphere that will give us space for free and creative thinking. What's at stake here is the remains of human agency. Let's use the brain pixels that are not taken yet. And Save the Humans!

ISBN: 9789063694012

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160 pages