The humane use of human beings?

Hancock, Peter A.

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2018.07.009

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“…Tantalizing desiderata, such as greater "free time" is also offered to the innocent traveler, so inclined to adopt these commercially motivated innovations. However, as I have argued elsewhere, increasing "time" tends to be vacuumed up by the profit-driven system which then exploits the enhanced opportunity to have individuals now "work" on their way to work (Hancock, 2019c). In other words, this promise will largely serve to simply re-cast the physical location of, mostly, electronic work-based interactions.…”

Section: The Most Practiced Skill In the Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Driving Into the Future

Hancock

2020

Front. Psychol.

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This work considers the future of driving in terms of both its short-and long-term horizons. It conjectures that human-controlled driving will follow in the footsteps of a wide swath of other, now either residual or abandoned human occupations. Pursuits that have preceded it into oblivion. In this way, driving will dwindle down into only a few niche locales wherein enthusiasts will still persist, much in the way that steam train hobbyists now continue their own aspirational inclinations. Of course, the value of any such prognostication is in direct proportion to the degree that information is conveyed, and prospective uncertainty reduced. In more colloquial terms: the devil is in the details of these coming transitions. It is anticipated that we will see a progressive transformation of the composition of on-road traffic that will be registered most immediately in the realm of professional transportation in which the imperative for optimization exceeds that in virtually all other user segments. The transition from manual control to full automation will be more punctate than gradualist in its evolutionary development. As performance optimization slowly exhausts the commercial sector, it will progressively transition more into the discretionary realm by dint of simple technology transfer alone. The hedonic dimension of everyday driving will be dispersed and pursued by progressively fewer individuals. The traveling window of generational expectation will soon mean that human driving will be largely "forgotten," as each sequential generation matures without this, still presently common experience. Indications of this stage of progress are beginning to be witnessed in the demographic profile of vehicle usage and ownership rates. The purpose of the exposition which follows is to consider and support each of these stated propositions.

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Section: The Most Practiced Skill In the Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Driving Into the Future

Hancock

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…We have understood the explicit values and operations of cybernetic control loops now for well over half a century (Wiener, 1950; Hancock, 2018b). Enacting human-machine control via adaptive systems employing physiological indicators is itself now more than a third of a century old (Hancock et al, 1985).…”

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“…This appeal must also be directed to an informed public, whose concern similarly must be for the advances in these overall areas of science and exactly how they will impact and frame future reality. It is so easy for both of these constituencies (working scientists and informed public) to dismiss these moral and ethical conundra with facile utterances such as “not my job,” “not my responsibility,” “not my concern,” or “not relevant at my pay grade,” but it is this indifference to accountability, and its lack of associated moral obligations that can lead us away from the cybernetic dysfunctionality we are obviously experiencing at the present time (Hancock, 2018b). At least in Raja's name, the appeal has now been made here.…”

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confidence: 99%

Neuroergonomics: Where the Cortex Hits the Concrete

Hancock

2019

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…And that ominous musician has now come to demand his tariff. Symptoms of this discontent and dysfunctionality are everywhere about us in the form of diminished and severed closed-loop feedback and feed-forward systems which subsume the evident instabilities in the very planetary infrastructure that supports all of life (for local effects see [18], and more contentiously, see [29]). Yet successive generations, each necessarily born into their own window of ignorance, continue to act as though his debt can be permanently postponed, or even betterignored.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One vital lens through which to view our present predicament is the most useful and effective perspective of cybernetics [18]. A fundamental theory of control, cybernetics (literally, steering principles) is associated with a legion of cross-disciplinary insights of the immediate post World War II era.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Praise of Civicide

Hancock

2019

Sustain Earth

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Resolving our current, human-generated (iatrogenic) problems must go beyond the search for purely technical remediations to embrace a re-casting of our fundamental forms of human social organizations and behavior. These designed innovations, representing mindful applications of biomimetic principles, can serve to help steer humankind toward a path of possible sustained, civilized survival and away from our current track of incipient social destruction.

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The humane use of human beings?

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Driving Into the Future

Driving Into the Future

Neuroergonomics: Where the Cortex Hits the Concrete

In Praise of Civicide

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