By Robert Pepperell
ISBN-10: 1871516455
ISBN-13: 9781871516456
This paintings demanding situations a number of the humanist assumptions of Western philosophy, technology and paintings. It proposes a view of the human construction at the findings of quantum concept, chaos concept, disaster thought, cybernetics, cyberpunk and "New Ageism", considering present medical and technological advancements. the writer asserts that as we input the submit Human period, a lot of our ideals are redundant, most glaringly the idea within the man or woman. traditionally, the social evolution from the rural period to the commercial period was once observed through a cultural shift from theism to humanism. the present shift from the economic period to the Technological period brings with it radical adjustments in cultural values and the influence of excessive expertise and lengthening automation is altering the way in which we expect approximately ourselves and our surroundings.
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This paintings demanding situations a number of the humanist assumptions of Western philosophy, technological know-how and paintings. It proposes a view of the human situation development at the findings of quantum conception, chaos conception, disaster thought, cybernetics, cyberpunk and "New Ageism", bearing in mind present clinical and technological advancements.
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We could produce molecular engines to be inserted into the blood to seek out and kill malignant cells and viruses, or mend damaged DNA. Dying cells could be revitalised to re-grow lost tissue. Large machines, such as rocket engines, could be built by billions of tiny molecular workers 'growing' complete structures from programmed 'seeds'. Whilst many of these remain highly speculative, the notion of molecular machines has attracted considerable interest. There seems no essential reason why this approach could not be adopted as the relevant technology advances.
Because assemblers will let us place atoms in almost any reasonable arrangement, they will let us build almost anything that the laws of nature will allow to exist. In particular they will let us build almost anything we can design including more assemblers. The consequences of this will be profound, because our crude tools have let us explore only a small part of the range of possibilities that natural law permits. ' Drexler p. 14 Some of the applications of nanotechnology seem fantastical yet, according to Drexler, are based on proven scientific principles spacesuits like living skin, as strong as steel, that are programmed to adapt to your body as you move around so that you hardly feel them.
It is the notion that you can exist, work, interact at a distance using virtual reality and digital communications. In a telepresent environment it will be difficult to determine where a person actually 'is'. The classic vision of cyberspace is that described by William Gibson in Neuromancer. 11 Page vi Robotics and prosthetics. Because of the potential for expanding productivity and profits by automating skilled labour, intensive research continues into robot development. All modern car plants are highly automated, as are many other production processes.
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