The Great Transformation: History for a Techno-Human Future

ISBN-13: 9780367876432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Judith Bessant

Opis

While AI, robots, bio-technologies and digital media are transforming work, culture and social life, there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and significance of this change. This new interpretation of the ‘great transformation’ uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight the momentous shift in human consciousness taki

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Freedom and Determinism: Alpha Go, AI Financial Trading and Japan’s Mika Diva  2. What is Happening? : The First Axial Age  3. Changing Our Minds: The Techno-Axial Age  4. Crisis and Learning from the past: Three economic crises, 1890-2008  5. Recursivity in Times of Crisis: A Heuristic  6. Data is the New Oil: Leadership and Political Rhetoric in the Techno-Axial Age  7. What experts say about Artificial Intelligence  8. Social design for the new Techno-Axial Age  Conclusion

O autorze

Judith Bessant is a Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. She is widely published and her research interests include policy, sociology, politics, youth studies, media-technology studies, and history. She has also worked as an advisor for governments and non-government organizations. In 2017 she was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for her ‘significant service to education as a social scientist, advocate and academic specializing in youth studies research’.