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Predicted Humans (Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect) free ebook download

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Author(s):	Simona Chiodo

Date:	2024	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1032643110
Pages:	146	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that predict our professional success (or failure) to biomarkers that predict how long (or short) our healthy (or unhealthy) life will be. Yet, much in Western culture, from scripture to mythology to philosophy, suggests that knowing ones future may not be in the subjects best interests and might even lead to disaster. If predicting our future as individuals can be harmful as well as beneficial, why are we so willing to engage in so much prediction, from cradle to grave?
This book offers a philosophical answer, reflecting on seminal texts in Western culture to argue that predicting our future renders much of our existence the automated effect of various causes, which, in turn, helps to alleviate the existential burden of autonomously making sense of our lives in a more competitive, demanding, accelerated society. An exploration of our tendency in a technological era to engineer and so rid ourselves of that which has hitherto been our primary reason for being  making life plans for a successful future, while faced with epistemological and ethical uncertainties 
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