How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits
Explains some of the ways in which technological advances are altering, for better or worse, large-scale human behavior, thought processes, and critical thinking skills.

Recent technological advances—from dating apps to artificial insemination, from "smart" phones to portable computers that can instantly search the World Wide Web for information, and from robots performing surgery to cars driving themselves—once remarkable, have become an unremarkable part of our lives. The team of authors of this book asks, "How are they changing us?"

We all recognize that these innovations have altered our lives, often making them easier, but it is also important to ask if we have lost anything while we have gained from them. The authors of How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits show that human behaviors and thinking skills are rapidly being reprogrammed by technology, with even more developments on the horizon sure to further alter our future and shape our identity.

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How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits
Explains some of the ways in which technological advances are altering, for better or worse, large-scale human behavior, thought processes, and critical thinking skills.

Recent technological advances—from dating apps to artificial insemination, from "smart" phones to portable computers that can instantly search the World Wide Web for information, and from robots performing surgery to cars driving themselves—once remarkable, have become an unremarkable part of our lives. The team of authors of this book asks, "How are they changing us?"

We all recognize that these innovations have altered our lives, often making them easier, but it is also important to ask if we have lost anything while we have gained from them. The authors of How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits show that human behaviors and thinking skills are rapidly being reprogrammed by technology, with even more developments on the horizon sure to further alter our future and shape our identity.

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How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits

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Explains some of the ways in which technological advances are altering, for better or worse, large-scale human behavior, thought processes, and critical thinking skills.

Recent technological advances—from dating apps to artificial insemination, from "smart" phones to portable computers that can instantly search the World Wide Web for information, and from robots performing surgery to cars driving themselves—once remarkable, have become an unremarkable part of our lives. The team of authors of this book asks, "How are they changing us?"

We all recognize that these innovations have altered our lives, often making them easier, but it is also important to ask if we have lost anything while we have gained from them. The authors of How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits show that human behaviors and thinking skills are rapidly being reprogrammed by technology, with even more developments on the horizon sure to further alter our future and shape our identity.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440869518
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/18/2019
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.35(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

C. G. Prado, PhD, FRSC, is emeritus professor of philosophy at Queen's University. His publications include America's Post-Truth Phenomenon and Social Media and Your Brain.

Table of Contents

Foreword Rossana Pasquino vii

Introduction: Technology Is Changing Us C. G. Prado ix

Chapter 1 The Robotization of Everything Lawrie McFarlane 1

Chapter 2 On Passing as Human and Robot Love Babette Babich 17

Chapter 3 Who Is Responsible for a Self-Driving Car? Chris Beeman 27

Chapter 4 Who's Your Mama? Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Meaning of Motherhood Jennifer Parks 43

Chapter 5 Screen Autism, Cell Phone Zombies, and GPS Mutes Babette Babich 65

Chapter 6 Technology in the Hands of Children: Helpful Tools or Harmful Distractions? Lisa Menard 73

Chapter 7 Learning in an Age of Digital Distraction: Education versus Consumption Chris Beeman 85

Chapter 8 The Kids Are All Right: Lessons from the March for Our Lives Jason Hannan 101

Chapter 9 Anonymity and (Misrepresentation on Social Media Are Changing Who We Are and How We Think About Identity Jessica Lowell Mason 119

Chapter 10 Deep Fakes and Computer Vision: The Paradox of New Images Lisa Portmess 139

About the Editor and Contributors 151

Index 155

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