Ethics and Global Impacts of Human Enhancement Technologies

Ethics and Global Impacts of Human Enhancement Technologies

Steven John Thompson
Pages: 300
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-5345-5
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Advances in Human Enhancement Technology over the past 10 years have exploded since the initial 2014 publication of Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies. Shifts in brain interfaces, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and robotics only scratch the service. It's all going somewhere, there is an end game, forces are competing for control and domination, new players are bringing new energy to the phenomenon. Yet the stakes for ethics and prospective global impacts of human enhancement could not be higher, or more dire, touching each and every one of us. This volume of carefully curated scholarly contributions from ethicists, futurists, scientists, technologists, and critical thinkers from around the world is a snapshot of the time we currently inhabit leading into a future we are rapidly destined to inherit. As humans. As human machines. Machine-humans. Machines...

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Steven John Thompson is a researcher in digital literacy, media studies, new media, rhetorics, and in professional, science and technical communication. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, Clemson University, Georgia Southern University, Towson University, and University of Maryland Global Campus. Dr. Thompson was Editor of Global issues and ethical considerations in human enhancement technologies, published by IGI Global in 2014. He is on the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ journal in Emerging Technologies, Ethical Issues, Human-Computer Interaction, Science Policy, and World Wide Web & Web Science subject areas. Thompson published pioneering quantitative research on Internet addiction and dependency in 1996, and presented his iconics theory on agency of terrorism images as virtual subscripts of artificial intelligence at University of Basel in 2009. He was plenary closing academic panel discussant at UNESCO’s First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy in Fez, Morocco, in 2011. Professor Thompson’s research, largely focused on the relationship between the media and terrorism, and on integration of the Internet appliance with the human body, has been presented in over a dozen countries on four continents. He holds a Ph.D. in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University, an M.S. degree in Media Arts and Science from Indiana University, and undergraduate degrees from Penn State, including a B.A. in Integrative Arts and B.A. in Media Studies, with a Minor Certificate from the Penn State College of Engineering in Science, Technology, and Society, the lens that frames his research. He may be found engaged with his lifelong avocation in Web technologies at steve.ws.
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