Event Info The separation of human from the artefactual marks a fundamental critical juncture between the Age we are entering and all other scientific Ages and human generations that have come before. One day, knowledge that was previously sovereign to humanity may also be non-human and non-natural (as in nanotechnology); vested in some form of (Quantum) Artificial intelligence. As a race for knowledge and control is heating up and power gaps are certain to widen between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ of technology, some important questions emerge.
Technological revolution therefore poses significant ethical and moral implications that is potentially global in scope and practically infinite in scale. This seminar will posit that technology could bring the decomposition of social structures and/or the disappearance of social distinctions introducing social entropy as a feature of natural decay within a social system. Registration for this event has closed. |