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In a short article in the May 2004 edition of Wired magazine (revealingly subtitled "Fear and Loathing on the Human-Machine Frontier") the futurist and science fiction writer Bruce Sterling sounds an increasingly familiar alarm. After warning us of the imminent dangers of "brain augmentation" he adds: Another troubling frontier is physical, as opposed to mental, augmentation. Japan has a rapidly growing elderly population and a serious shortage of caretakers. So Japanese roboticists ... envision walking wheelchairs and mobile arms that manipulate and fetch. But there's ethical hell at the interfaces, The peripherals may be dizzyingly clever gizmos but the CPU is a human being: old, weak, vulnerable, pitifully limited, possibly senile. (Sterling 2004: 116)

Author

Andy Clark

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299277588

Subjects

Philosophy, Technology, History