The 4th revolution
Subtitle: how the infosphere is reshaping human reality
By: Luciano Floridi
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780199606726
Subjects: Zukunft; Société de l'information; Information technology; Social aspects; Informationstechnik; Informationsgesellschaft; Computers and civilization; Futur; Internet; Information society; Aspects sociaux; Soziale Software; Technologies de l'information et de la communication
Other titles: Fourth revolution
Description: "Floridi argues that we must expand our ecological and ethical approach to cover both natural and man-made realities, putting the 'e' in an environmentalism that can deal successfully with the new challenges posed by our digital technologies and information society."--Provided by publisher.

"Is the informational world of smartphones and social media changing who we are and how we relate to others and the environment? Are we becoming informational organisms or 'inforgs', deeply enmeshed in a globe-spanning 'infosphere'? Luciano Floridi thinks so. In this exciting and provocative book, he considers the deeper implications of a future--almost upon us even now--in which we are always online, and the barriers between reality and the virtual world we inhabit when we switch on our computers finally dissolve. We are in the midst of a fourth revolution, he argues, as profound as those produced by Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud: a revolution set to change our sense of self, our relationships, society, politics, wars, and our management of the environment. We need to understand these changes and revise our ethics to reap the benefits and avoid the risks of this brave, new world." -- Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Time : hyperhistory; title: Space : infosphere; title: Identity: onlife; title: Self-understanding : the four revolutions; title: Privacy: informational friction; title: Intelligence: inscribing the world; title: Agency : enveloping the world; title: Politics : the rise of the multi-agent systems; title: Environment : the digital gambit; title: Ethics : e-nvironmentalism.