The Cyborg Revolution

Warwick, Kevin

doi:10.1007/s11569-014-0212-z

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“…Insofar as not all kinds of augmented reality and immersive VR technologies, neuroprosthetic implants, nanorobotic medical systems, and other transformative technologies will be needed or desired equally by all citizens, it can be expected that the diverging manner and degree of the use of such technologies will create increased diversity among the human members of Society 5.0; in its most extreme form, the uneven utilization of such technologies might even cause a society to fragment into numerous subsocieties that share the same geographical space but occupy psychological, cultural, and technological spaces (and "cyberspaces") that have little or no overlap between them (McGee 2008;Warwick 2014;Rubin 2008;Norberg-Schulz 1980;Erk and Uluoglu 2013).…”

Section: Technologically Altered Human Beings As Participants In Socimentioning

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Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Gladden

2019

Social Sciences

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The Government of Japan’s “Society 5.0” initiative aims to create a cyber-physical society in which (among other things) citizens’ daily lives will be enhanced through increasingly close collaboration with artificially intelligent systems. However, an apparent paradox lies at the heart of efforts to create a more “human-centered” society in which human beings will live alongside a proliferating array of increasingly autonomous social robots and embodied AI. This study seeks to investigate the presumed human-centeredness of Society 5.0 by comparing its makeup with that of earlier societies. By distinguishing “technological” and “non-technological” processes of posthumanization and applying a phenomenological anthropological model, this study demonstrates: (1) how the diverse types of human and non-human members expected to participate in Society 5.0 differ qualitatively from one another; (2) how the dynamics that will shape the membership of Society 5.0 can be conceptualized; and (3) how the anticipated membership of Society 5.0 differs from that of Societies 1.0 through 4.0. This study describes six categories of prospective human and non-human members of Society 5.0 and shows that all six have analogues in earlier societies, which suggests that social scientific analysis of past societies may shed unexpected light on the nature of Society 5.0.

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Section: Technologically Altered Human Beings As Participants In Socimentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Gladden

2019

Social Sciences

152

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“…Este tipo de chips está siendo utilizado de forma natural desde hace algunos años por empleados de empresas europeas y estadounidenses como Epicenter, NewFusion, y Three Square Market como forma de acceder a sus instalaciones (abrir puertas, encender luces), utilizar sus recursos informáticos (ordenadores, impresoras) y agilizar su metodología de trabajo con respecto a la de la competencia. Al mismo tiempo, esta tecnología ha sido utilizada en ciertos locales nocturnos «exclusivos» (Baja Beach Club de Barcelona y Rotterdam) para legitimar o no la entrada de ciertos clientes (método de seguridad), aunque la idea es que también sean utilizados como «tarjeta de crédito» y así agilizar el proceso de compra sin necesidad de cargar con dinero en efectivo o con tarjetas bancarias 49 . No obstante, también han saltado las alarmas en torno a problemas éticos derivados de estos implantes, como, por ejemplo, la recopilación y el tráfico de datos personales y profesionales, la geolocalización 24 horas de los sujetos y la pérdida de privacidad.…”

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Realidad y ficción transhumanista

Sáez¹

2019

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La ideología transhumanista ha sido, desde su emergencia hace miles de años, una constante en la historia de la humanidad. Sin embargo, su materialización, que no había parecido posible hasta ahora, se vislumbra como un objetivo alcanzable en un futuro cercano gracias a las nuevas tecnologías biomédicas, robóticas, informativas e incluso militares. En este ambiente de progreso científico y humano, este artículo pretende recoger las ideas y pretensiones esenciales del movimiento transhumanista y, al mismo tiempo, dilucidar si éstas pueden ser una realidad alcanzable a corto y medio plazo o, si más bien, son una utopía propia de la literatura y el cine de ficción. Palabras clave: transhumanismo, perfeccionamiento humano, inteligencia artificial, cibernética, biotecnología, distopía transhumanista.

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“…But there are other important conceptual issues that have been neglected within the human enhancement discussion. On the one hand, the debate on human enhancement has focused on hightechnological interventions, such as genetic engineering (Baylis and Robert, 2004;DeGrazia, 2012), pharmacological interventions (Rose, 2002;Bolt and Schermer, 2009;Evans-Brown et al, 2012), nanotechnology (Lin and Allhoff, 2006;Cabrera, 2015), and human/machine interfaces (Warwick, 2014). Yet, strictly speaking even low-tech approaches like drinking coffee, being vaccinated, having a good night's sleep, eating nutritious food, and exercising are human enhancements (Sandberg and Bostrom, 2006;Allen and Strand, 2015).…”

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Reframing Human Enhancement: A Population Health Perspective

Cabrera

2017

Front. Sociol.

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The dominant understandings on human enhancement, such as those based on the therapy-enhancement distinction or transhumanist views, have been focused on high technological interventions directly changing biological and physical features of individuals. The individual-based orientation and reductionist approach that dominant views of human enhancement take have undermined the exploration of more inclusive ways to think about human enhancement. In this perspective, I argue that we need to expand our understanding of human enhancement and open a more serious discussion on the type of enhancement interventions that can foster practical improvements for populations. In doing so, lessons from a population health perspective can be incorporated. Under such a perspective, human enhancement focus shifts from changing the biological reality of individuals, to addressing environmental factors that undermine the optimal performance of individuals or that can foster wellness. Such a human enhancement perspective would be consistent with a population health approach, as it pursues more equitable and accessible interventions, on the path to addressing social inequality. Human enhancement does not need to be only about high-technological interventions for a selected group of individuals; rather, it should be a continuous project aiming to include everyone and maximize the public benefit.

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The Cyborg Revolution

Cited by 34 publications

References 18 publications

Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

Realidad y ficción transhumanista

Reframing Human Enhancement: A Population Health Perspective

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