Cognitive Prosthethics

Couverture
Elsevier, 22 nov. 2018 - 348 pages

Computerized machines can be found in many forms and all around us – in our pockets, and even sometimes in our body. For many of us, they are now essential elements of everyday life.

When it comes to smartphones, connected objects, medical digital devices and e-health, these digital tools have proliferated in our environment, continually transforming our modes of social organization. They act as prostheses and orthotics that “enhance our cognitive capacities and influence our inherent behaviors.

Are digital tools that perpetually envelop the body and the spirit able to overwhelm the social order? Could our cognitive prosthetics lead to permanent, radical change to our society, which could become similar to a hive? This book explores this reflection, which is at the center of social research on digital tools.

  • Presents a complete review of the field of computerized human prosthetics
  • Drawn from research conducted over 6 years and from 2 post doctoral surveys conducted at renowned institutions in France and Japan (Sorbonne University, CNRS, Tokyo Institute of technology)
  • Provides an interdisciplinary approach, combining anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy
 

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Table des matières

1 Typology of Prostheses and Interface Modes between Humans and Digital Systems
1
2 Design and Distribution of Detachable Digital Prostheses
29
3 Cyberutopianism
59
4 Living with Digital Prostheses
75
5 The Addictive Nature of CognitiveProstheses
125
6 Cognitive Prosthetics and Social Engineering
147
7 Potential Pedagogical Impact of Massive and Excessive Use of Cognitive Prosthetics
171
8 Body and Technology through the Concepts of the Cyborg and the Enhanced Human
241
9 The Economic and Environmental Impact and the Sustainability of Computerbased Prosthetics
255
Conclusion
287
References
303
Index
327
Back Cover
329
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À propos de l'auteur (2018)

Maxime Derian is a researcher at Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 (CETCOPRA), France, and a member of the Observatoire des mondes numériques en sciences humaines (OMNSH), France. He is an anthropologist of techniques, specializing in the domain of social uses and digital tools, especially concerning e-health. His research focuses on the hybridization of the human body with computerized machines.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreCognitive Prosthethics
AuteurMaxime Derian
ÉditeurElsevier, 2018
ISBN0081027575, 9780081027578
Longueur348 pages
  
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