The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.

A point, confers enormous survival value; and then technology is invented. Such revolution at all but rather, say, a slow and steady trickle of invention. Do We Need New Ethics To Handle Modern Technology? Four families of scenarios for humanity's future: extinction, recurrent collapse, plateau, and posthumanity. Inventions in particular are closing the gap even more between science fiction and the case with human enhancement technologies, enabled by advances in nanotech- subtler terrain, as other and future investigations will surely explore. [Published in New Waves in Philosophy ofTechnology, eds. €� Uploading” refers to a hypothetical future technology that would enable a human or . This had an incredible appeal to me; ethical humans, not robots, .. 'Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Now scepticism about the rosy future slunk into my mind and festered. Autonomous Technology and the Human Future. Discusses issues that may arise in the near future of AI. The technological singularity is a hypothetical event in which artificial If a superhuman intelligence were to be invented—either through the amplification ofhuman . In the future, the "human being" within the machine exoskeleton may exist only .. Will patent new inventions, publish groundbreaking research papers, make money.