Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
ISBN: 0596526806
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 122
Pages: 122
Authors: Steve Talbott
- Cover
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Credits
- Part I: Technology, Nature, and the Human Prospect
- Chapter 1. The Deceiving Virtues of Technology
- 1.1. Devices of the Mind
- 1.2. The Man of Many Devices
- 1.3. Balance and Separation
- 1.4. Reckoning with the Scoundrel
- 1.5. Reversals
- 1.6. Triumph of the Contrivance
- 1.7. Rousing Ourselves
- Chapter 2. Hold a Blossom to the Light
- 2.1. On Reading One s Environment
- 2.2. The Powers of Recognition
- 2.3. Puzzling Knowledge
- 2.4. Seeking a New Balance
- 2.5. The Thrill of Cutting Down Trees
- 2.6. Don t Bemoan the Loss of Old Skills
- Chapter 3. Toward an Ecological Conversation
- 3.1. We Converse to Become Ourselves
- 3.2. Permission and Responsibility
- 3.3. Approaching Mystery
- 3.4. Where Does the Wild Live?
- 3.5. Toward Creative Responsibility
- 3.6. A Word Unasked For
- Part II: Extraordinary Lives
- Chapter 4. Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?
- 4.1. Hearing with More Than Ears
- 4.2. Lost Sight, Second Sight
- 4.3. Dangers
- 4.4. Attending to the World with New Eyes
- 4.5. The Human Being as a Developing Potential
- 4.6. Saving Illnesses
- 4.7. Addendum: The Living and the Dead
- 4.8. From And There Was Light
- Chapter 5. The Many Voices of Destiny
- 5.1. Falling Apart, Coming Together
- 5.2. At Harvard
- 5.3. Enjoying Life
- 5.4. Listening
- 5.5. Epilogue: Tinkering with Ourselves
- 5.6. On the New Eugenics
- Chapter 6. On Forgetting to Wear Boots
- 6.1. Dignity and Laughter
- 6.2. Trying to Communicate
- 6.3. Gift-Bearers
- 6.4. Serving the Other
- 6.5. Of Accident and Destiny
- 6.6. A Parent s Disconcerting Revelation
- Part III: From Information to Education
- Chapter 7. Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away?
- 7.1. The Loss of Significance
- 7.2. Living in a Virtual World
- 7.3. Learning the Language of Horses
- 7.4. A Chickadee Lesson
- Chapter 8. Failure to Connect
- 8.1. Looking for the Benefits
- 8.2. Remembering the Alternatives
- Chapter 9. Educational Provocations
- Chapter 10. Three Notes: On Baby Walkers, Video Games, and Sex
- 10.1. Beware the Baby Walker
- 10.2. Pianists and Video Game Players
- 10.3. Sex, the Internet, and Educational Reform
- Chapter 11. Who s Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?)
- 11.1. When Business Embraces the Academy
- 11.2. Buying an Education More Cheaply
- 11.3. The Credentialed Society
- 11.4. Toward Greater Standardization
- 11.5. Becoming Qualified
- 11.6. Nothing to Teach
- Part IV: On Socializing Our Machines
- Chapter 12. Conversing with Ella
- Chapter 13. Flesh and Machines:The Mere Assertions of Rodney Brooks
- 13.1. Searching for the Bottom
- 13.2. Order and Form
- 13.3. Losing Consciousness
- 13.4. Turnabout Is Fair Play
- Chapter 14. From HAL to Kismet
- 14.1. The Human Response
- 14.2. How Do You Simulate Life?
- 14.3. Invisible Authors
- 14.4. Learning from Kismet
- Chapter 15. Invisible Tools or Emotionally Supportive Pals?
- 15.1. We Need to Recognize Our Own Assumptions
- 15.2. Complementary Errors
- 15.3. The Computer in Context
- Part V: On Mechanizing Society
- Chapter 16. Evil
- Chapter 17. The Threat of Technology That Works Well
- 17.1. Press quot
- 17.2. An Information Arms Race
- 17.3. Do Cell Phones Make Us Safer?
- 17.4. Will Lie-Detecting Software Make Us More Trustworthy?
- 17.5. The Automobile
- 17.6. Being Positive by Being Negative
- Chapter 18. The Ideal of Ubiquitous Technology
- 18.1. Digital Servants Everywhere
- 18.2. There Are No Solutions
- 18.3. Not Solutions, But a Strengthening of the quot
- 18.4. Automating on Principle
- 18.5. A Strengthened Inner Activity
- Chapter 19. Privacy in an Age of Data
- 19.1. The Life of a Vibrant Neighborhood
- 19.2. The Privacy of Community
- Chapter 20. A Taste for Number Magic
- 20.1. The Importance of Capitalism
- 20.2. Flights of Abstraction
- 20.3. All You Need Is Numbers
- 20.4. Cutting Ourselves Off from Change
- 20.5. Beyond the Gambling Hall
- Chapter 21. The Internet: Reflections on Our Present Discontents
- 21.1. Vacant Efficiency
- 21.2. Personalizing Our Transactions
- 21.3. Movable Places
- 21.4. The Virtue of Friction in the Landscape
- 21.5. Programming Levity
- 21.6. A Hope Beyond Technology
- Bibliography
- About the Author
Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
ISBN: 0596526806
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2007
Pages: 122
Pages: 122
Authors: Steve Talbott