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The Virtuous Cyborg
Overview
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. You do everything on your smartphone and love it--you are, now and forevermore, a cyborg. But how would you know if you were a good cyborg? Game designer and philosopher Chris Bateman explores cyborg virtue through problems such as cyberbullying, "fake news," and the indifference of computers to human needs. Bateman reveals our shallow-sightedness in the face of the unfathomable complexity of our cybernetic networks. Critical yet optimistic, THE VIRTUOUS CYBORG rises to the challenge of the twenty-first century by asking us to ponder the question of what kind of cyborgs we want to become.
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- ISBN-13: 9781912477005
- ISBN-10: 1912477009
- Publisher: Eyewear Publishing
- Publish Date: May 2018
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.52 pounds
- Page Count: 195
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