EAN: 9780262536370

THE DEATH ALGORITHM AND OTHER DIGITAL DILEMMAS ...

Provocative takes on cyberbullshit  smartphone zombies  instant gratification  the traffic
school of the information highway  and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age. In The
Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas  Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink
of a society that views social  political  and ethical challenges as technological problems
that can be fixed with the right algorithm  the best data  or the fastest computer. For example
the death algorithm is programmed into a driverless car to decide  in an emergency  whether to
plow into a group of pedestrians  a mother and child  or a brick wall. Can such life-and-death
decisions no longer be left to the individual human? In these incisive essays  Simanowski asks
us to consider what it means to be living in a time when the president of the United States
declares the mainstream media to be an enemy of the people while Facebook transforms the people
into the enemy of mainstream media. Simanowski describes smartphone zombies (or smombies ) who
remove themselves from the physical world to the parallel universe of social media networks 
calls on Adorno to help parse Trump's tweeting  considers transmedia cannibalism  as written
text is transformed into a postliterate object  compares the economic and social effects of the
sharing economy to a sixteen-wheeler running over a plastic bottle on the road  and explains
why philosophy mat become the most important element in the automotive and technology
industries.

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