Engaging the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Subtitle: perspectives from theology, philosophy and education
By: J.A. Van den Berg, editor
Series: University of the Free State theological explorations; University of the Free State theological explorations -- v. 3.
Publisher: SUN Media
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781928424505
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Educational applications; Technology; Religious aspects; Philosophy; Moral and ethical aspects; Religion and science
Description: "The reality of a radically changing world is beyond dispute. The notion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a heuristic key for the world of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, big data, the internet of things, and biotechnology. The discussion of emerging technologies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution highlights urgent questions about issues like intention, function, risk, and responsibility. This publication stimulates further reflection, ongoing conservation, and eventually the production of more textured thinking. The conservation with technology and with thinkers on technology, holds the promise of a certain fecundity, the possibility to see deeper into human evolution, but also, may be, into the future of humankind." --Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Technology and theology: Finding the real God; title: Close encounters of the fourth kind: A theological essay about new technologies; title: Theologising emerging technologies?; title: The "Fourth Industrial Revolution": A case of South African techno-messianism; title: From Harari to Harare: On mapping and theologically relating the Fourth Industrial Revolution  with human distinctiveness; title: What is the shape of future ethics; title: Towards transforming university pedagogy and curricula for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; title: Embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Adaptive changes for sustainable distance theological education; title: Religious leadership and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Towards a competency framework; title: The impact of emerging technologies on liturgical practices: A thanatechnological exploration.