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Re-Engineering Humanity Reprint Edition
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- ISBN-101108707645
- ISBN-13978-1108707640
- EditionReprint
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication dateSeptember 12, 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.99 x 9 inches
- Print length434 pages
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‘Re-Engineering Humanity brings a pragmatic if somewhat dystopic perspective to the technological phenomena of our age. Humans are learning machines and we learn from our experiences. This book made me ask myself whether the experiences we are providing to our societies are in fact beneficial in the long run.' Vint Cerf, Co-Inventor of the Internet
‘Frischmann and Selinger deftly and convincingly show why we should be less scared of robots than of becoming more robotic, ourselves. This book will convince you why it's so important we embed technologies with human values before they embed us with their own.' Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
‘Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger cogently argue that our Fitbit, Echo, Android, and game console, our Facebook pages, Google searches, Amazon and Netflix profiles, give far less than they take. With tiny, almost imperceptible steps, we have entered into a bargain with socio-technical engineers of the digital age that literally drains our humanity and is imperiling freedom, autonomy, and other precious values fundamental to meaningful human existence. Beyond admittedly important questions demanding balanced policy answers, this disquieting book is about the big picture. All of us should read it and decide, deliberately, if this is a future we want for ourselves and our children.' Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell Tech, and author of Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life
‘Everybody is suddenly worried about technology. Will social media be the end of democracy? Is automation going to eliminate jobs? Will artificial intelligence make people obsolete? Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger boldly propose that the problem isn't the rise of ‘smart' machines but the dumbing down of humanity. This refreshingly philosophical book asks what's lost when we outsource our decision-making to algorithmic systems we don't own and barely understand. Better yet, it proposes conceptual and practical ways to reclaim our autonomy and dignity in the face of new forms of computational control.' Astra Taylor, author of The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Control in the Digital Age
‘A magnificent achievement. Writing in the tradition of Neil Postman, Jacque Ellul and Marshall McLuhan, this book is the decade's deepest and most powerful portrayal of the challenges to freedom created by our full embrace of comprehensive techno-social engineering. A rewarding and stimulating book that merits repeated readings and may also cause you to reconsider how you live life.' Tim Wu, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, and author of The Attention Merchants
'The book Re-Engineering Humanity by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger will help us all gain better understanding of techno-social engineering and help us think through what we want and don’t want in our future. This is an incredible work that should be studied by every thinking human. It captures details on threats, documenting the many warnings we are already seeing.' Bob Gourley, CTO Vision (www.ctovision.com)
‘Together, they explore how ordinary activities like clicking on an app’s legal terms are made so simple that it 'trains' us to not read the contents. Over time, the authors fear that humans will lose their capacity for judgment, discrimination and self-sufficiency. Or, as Douglas Rushkoff, a tech writer, put it: 'We should be less scared of robots than of becoming more robotic ourselves'.’ The Economist Online (www.economist.com)
‘… a recent startling and thoughtful book … [Re-Engineering Humanity] is an exploration of how everyday practices - such as clicking to accept an app’s legal terms - are made so simple that we are effectively 'trained' to not read the contents. Unless things change, the dominance of digital technology means that, over time, humans will lose their capacity for judgment, discrimination and self-sufficiency.’ John Naughton, The Guardian
‘In Re-engineering Humanity, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger have dug deeply into what's going on behind the 'cheap bliss' in our fully connected world.’ Doc Searles, Linux Journal
‘In our own time, as Frischmann and Selinger observe, the 'smart' device and 'internet of things' developers who offer us efficiency then pull a bait-and-switch: instead of sending us on our way to use our newly-free time on art, beauty, and education, they channel us into putting our time into mumblety-Facebook and its ilk, or what the authors aptly call 'cheap bliss'.’ Lara Freidenfelds, Nursing Clio (www.nursingclio.org)
'Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger have written Re-Engineering Humanity as a sustained and multifaceted critique of how contemporary trends in internet technology are slowly but surely shrinking the territory of human autonomy. Their work is a warning, as well as a description, of how internet technologies that ostensibly make our lives easier do so by taking control of our lives away from our self-conscious decision-making.' Adam Riggio, Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (www.social-epistemology.com)
‘Professors Frischmann and Selinger shine a bright light on the current path of our surveillance capitalist society, using a combination of detailed analysis, contemporary examples, and thought experiments. The authors explain that as we (and information about us) increasingly become the product, we are also becoming simple machines programmed by our technology to respond in certain ways. As Frischmann and Selinger suggest, techno-social engineering is a powerful force that requires us to responsibly evaluate its use. And 'if we don't accept that responsibility, we risk becoming means to others' ends'.’ Jeramie D. Scott, Epic Alert
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About the Author
Evan Selinger is Professor of Philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is also the Head of Research Communications, Community, and Ethics at the Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction, and Creativity. A Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum, his primary research is on the ethical and privacy dimensions of emerging technology. Selinger has co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, with Jules Polontesky and Omer Tene (Cambridge, 2018). A strong advocate of public philosophy, he regularly writes for magazines, newspapers, and blogs, including the Guardian, The Atlantic, Slate, and Wired.
Product details
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (September 12, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 434 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1108707645
- ISBN-13 : 978-1108707640
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.99 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the authors
Evan Selinger is a Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology and Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum.
Selinger’s prolific research covers ethical issues concerning technology, science, the law, and expertise. Committed to public engagement, Selinger’s writing appears in Wired, The Atlantic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The Guardian, Salon, CNN, Bloomberg Opinion, The BBC, The Christian Science Monitor, New Scientist, Aeon, Forbes, and HuffPost.
More information about Selinger's work can be found at his personal website, http://eselinger.org/.
More information about Selinger's most recent book, "Re-Engineering Humanity" (co-authored with Brett Frischmann) can be found at the book's website, https://www.reengineeringhumanity.com/.
Brett Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, Villanova University. He is also an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino. He teaches courses in intellectual property, Internet law, privacy, and technology policy. Frischmann is a prolific author, whose articles have appeared in numerous leading academic journals. He has published important books on the relationships between infrastructural resources, governance, commons, and spillovers, including Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (Oxford University Press, 2012), Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg), and Governing Medical Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, Winter 2017, with Michael Madison and Katherine Strandburg).
His most recent work examines the relationships between technology and humanity. For more on his recent book, Re-Engineering Humanity, co-authored with RIT philosophy professor Evan Selinger, check out their website: reengineeringhumanity.com
Frischmann received his BA in Astrophysics from Columbia University, an MS in Earth Resources Engineering from Columbia University, and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practicing at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC, he joined the Loyola University, Chicago law faculty in 2002. In 2010, he joined Cardozo Law School in New York city and directed Cardozo's leading Intellectual Property and Information Law Program. In 2017, he joined Villanova as the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics to promote cross-campus research, programming and collaboration; foster high-visibility academic pursuits at the national and international levels; teach across the University; and position Villanova as a thought leader and innovator at the intersection of law, business and economics.
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What is it that all book reviews say, "a must read"... well as much as I hate to use a cliché I feel I have to in this case. Re-Engineering Humanity is truly a must read if you are at all interested in the techno-social conversation. For me, it was a completely unique take on the effects of technology and, more importantly, what we should actually be worried about. It seems almost everything I've read up until this has had a focus on how society is being changed by technologies and/or how that will impact people, in those more pluralistic broader strokes. What Frischmann and Selinger have artfully done is put our individual humanity at the center of the conversation, and for me that was both original and fascinating! As you might suspect, it will make you think first about the impact of technology on your humanity and then, by necessity, you will be forced to consider what are the very pieces that comprise your humanity and which ones would you be willing to give up in the name of convenience.
But now the warning... this was not an easy read, well at least not for me. On more than one occasion and I had to stop, scratch my head, say what the heck and then re-read the passage. Re-engineering Humanity will definitely require your focus and attention, but trust me, well worth your time and effort!
Both Re-Engineering Humanity, as well as Notes from the Cafe, must be made required reading at every university. I applaud Frischmann and Selinger for having the courage to dissect our world in such as a way as to render a broadly defined indictment against the belief that progress, as it is currently understood, is always a wonderful thing.
If you care about reflection and contemplation, then I'm urging everyone to read Re-Engineering Humanity.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2021
The book opens a new perspective in the current context of passive acceptance of technology in our life : in particular, I have found the two freedoms (freedom to be off, and freedom from technological determinism) a powerful concept for further works. In addition, I found extremely original the proposal of engineering or manually injecting transaction costs and inefficiencies when using digital technologie, in order to foster active exercise of human capabilities.
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Por ser uma contribuição entre um jurista e um filósofo, o livro traz insights interessantes sobre a dinâmica contratual na Internet (os "boilerplaits", contratos que ninguém lê) e a indução para que os dados sejam captados e tratados com a máxima capacidade de extração de valor, de forma invisível. Os autores defendem uma espécie de "novo ambientalismo" para contestar a redução e depredação de bens (imateriais) que são coletivos, como a privacidade e a proteção de dados pessoais. Há uma crítica profunda a uma análise economicista sobre a racionalidade de agentes econômicos no ambiente online.
O livro traz conceitos importantes sobre "engenharização" do comportamento humano, trazendo à tona a política dos códigos e as escolhas e valores subjacentes a decisões sobre como determinadas tecnologias irão operar. O livro traz lições semelhantes às obras de Hannah Arendt e Hans Jonas sobre a condição humana na era tecnológica, porém com uma matriz filosófica mais anglo-saxônica do que europeia continental.