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Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence [图书] Goodreads 豆瓣
作者:
Andy Clark
出版社:
Oxford University Press
2004
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Natural-Born Cyborgs
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we already are cyborgs.
In Natural-Born Cyborgs , Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural practices into our existence. Technology as simple as writing on a sketchpad, as familiar as Google or a cellular phone, and as potentially revolutionary as mind-extending neural implants--all exploit our brains' astonishingly plastic nature. Our minds are primed to seek out and incorporate non-biological resources, so that we actually think and feel through our best technologies. Drawing on his expertise in cognitive science, Clark demonstrates that our sense of self and of physical presence can be expanded to a remarkable extent, placing the long-existing telephone and the emerging technology of telepresence on the same continuum. He explores ways in which we have adapted our lives to make use of technology (the measurement of time, for example, has wrought enormous changes in human existence), as well as ways in
which increasingly fluid technologies can adapt to individual users during normal use. Bio-technological unions, Clark argues, are evolving with a speed never seen before in history. As we enter an age of wearable computers, sensory augmentation, wireless devices, intelligent environments, thought-controlled prosthetics, and rapid-fire information search and retrieval, the line between the user and her tools grows thinner day by day. "This double whammy of plastic brains and increasingly responsive and well-fitted tools creates an unprecedented opportunity for ever-closer kinds of human-machine merger," he writes, arguing that such a merger is entirely natural.
A stunning new look at the human brain and the human self, Natural Born Cyborgs reveals how our technology is indeed inseparable from who we are and how we think.
In Natural-Born Cyborgs , Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural practices into our existence. Technology as simple as writing on a sketchpad, as familiar as Google or a cellular phone, and as potentially revolutionary as mind-extending neural implants--all exploit our brains' astonishingly plastic nature. Our minds are primed to seek out and incorporate non-biological resources, so that we actually think and feel through our best technologies. Drawing on his expertise in cognitive science, Clark demonstrates that our sense of self and of physical presence can be expanded to a remarkable extent, placing the long-existing telephone and the emerging technology of telepresence on the same continuum. He explores ways in which we have adapted our lives to make use of technology (the measurement of time, for example, has wrought enormous changes in human existence), as well as ways in
which increasingly fluid technologies can adapt to individual users during normal use. Bio-technological unions, Clark argues, are evolving with a speed never seen before in history. As we enter an age of wearable computers, sensory augmentation, wireless devices, intelligent environments, thought-controlled prosthetics, and rapid-fire information search and retrieval, the line between the user and her tools grows thinner day by day. "This double whammy of plastic brains and increasingly responsive and well-fitted tools creates an unprecedented opportunity for ever-closer kinds of human-machine merger," he writes, arguing that such a merger is entirely natural.
A stunning new look at the human brain and the human self, Natural Born Cyborgs reveals how our technology is indeed inseparable from who we are and how we think.
变量5 [图书] Goodreads 豆瓣
作者:
何帆
出版社:
新星出版社
2023
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100余人,200多小时电话录音,景德镇、中山、宾阳等10个城市,岑科、愿景、Artand等企业,新能源汽车、房地产、教培等行业。2022年,著名学者何帆继续着他的调研与观察。
他看到那些像野草一样的人,不去与树争高,而是放低身段,把根深深地扎进土里。
他看到那些在竞 争中落败的企业,就像被对手逼上岸的鱼,穷途末路,却被激发出进化的勇气,成了胜利者的祖先。
他看到那些像恐龙一样的行业,在巨震之后,凭借鸟的基因,在全新的环境中辨别出新的资源。
他看到民粹主义的幽灵,像1692年的女巫一样在西方的上空盘旋,全球化受挫,但中国的优势与未来仍清晰可辨。
他看到我们每一代人都有自己的使命:活下去,并把经验和智慧传给自己的种子。
我们就像哥伦布那艘大船上的水手,一路艰险,即将抵达陆地。
翻开这本书,让我们同舟共济。
他看到那些像野草一样的人,不去与树争高,而是放低身段,把根深深地扎进土里。
他看到那些在竞 争中落败的企业,就像被对手逼上岸的鱼,穷途末路,却被激发出进化的勇气,成了胜利者的祖先。
他看到那些像恐龙一样的行业,在巨震之后,凭借鸟的基因,在全新的环境中辨别出新的资源。
他看到民粹主义的幽灵,像1692年的女巫一样在西方的上空盘旋,全球化受挫,但中国的优势与未来仍清晰可辨。
他看到我们每一代人都有自己的使命:活下去,并把经验和智慧传给自己的种子。
我们就像哥伦布那艘大船上的水手,一路艰险,即将抵达陆地。
翻开这本书,让我们同舟共济。