Albery Borgmann: Technological information is so much more massive than natural and unlike cultural information takes on a life of its own so that we may be deceived or uncertain about whether a real person has addressed us from within cyberspace. It would take artificial intelligence and much more advanced virtual reality to give that uncertainty real oomph. Neither is feasible as far as I am concerned. But interestingly, people, when entering cyberspace, sometimes reduce themselves to the shallow, disjointed, and cliché-ridden persona that can be mimicked by information technology and so become co-conspirators of their confusions about who is who. If we keep our mooring in reality and conduct ourselves thoughtfully in cyberspace, we will not fall prey to deception. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/borghayl.html
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:21:44 +0000
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