Daniela Cerqui
Abstract
My anthropological analysis of bionics is based on the representations of engineers concerning the definition of humankind and its future. The difference between repairing and improving on human beings is disappearing and we strive to reach a kind of `perfection', whose criteria are evolving with technical developments. Nowadays, in the so-called information society, information is described as the best value: a perfect human being would be a free brain directly connected to the web, and without a body because it is considered as an impediment to the circulation of information. But what is considered as good today won't be good enough tomorrow. And `improving' the human being more and more could make it evolve into a very different human being, or even into a new species: post-humankind. For some people, this is not a problem, because the goal is to be `better' than we are, human or not. As for me, I think that we risk losing something very important: our social ability.
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- The future of humankind in the era of human andcomputer hybridization: An anthropological analysis
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