We are in a technological age, and technology is now so powerful that we define ourselves and our world in relation to it. The changes we have experienced in the past decades in science and technology have modified also our beliefs and the “human-centred” view of the universe we have inherited from the past, thus bringing us into a “post-human” condition. This essay aims at exploring the relationship between technology and the representation of the self in the contemporary world, and the radical revision of the process by which identity is constructed. The use of tools has changed the human mind, altered the human body, and reshaped human identity. Now at the dawn of the 21st century, a new generation of machines that can aid or even mimic human physical and mental capabilities, in questioning the centrality of man in the world, is going to radically change humanity.
Technology and the Human Experience
RUGGIERO, ALESSANDRA
2007-01-01
Abstract
We are in a technological age, and technology is now so powerful that we define ourselves and our world in relation to it. The changes we have experienced in the past decades in science and technology have modified also our beliefs and the “human-centred” view of the universe we have inherited from the past, thus bringing us into a “post-human” condition. This essay aims at exploring the relationship between technology and the representation of the self in the contemporary world, and the radical revision of the process by which identity is constructed. The use of tools has changed the human mind, altered the human body, and reshaped human identity. Now at the dawn of the 21st century, a new generation of machines that can aid or even mimic human physical and mental capabilities, in questioning the centrality of man in the world, is going to radically change humanity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
