“Digital Divide”: outline of a concept
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
Society, social systems
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
How can the work of anthropologist Philippe Descola, “Beyond Nature and Culture”, be applied to our digital world?
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
Photography, a system of technical essence, unveils by analogy the whole technical “progress” (inspired by the philosopher Henri Van Lier)
Can and should autonomous “intelligent” artifacts be held responsible for their decisions? Should a new legal subject be created?
Addictions, fake news, breaches of privacy … Can the “ethical” offer of digital professionals remedy these drifts?
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
How close can one become to a digitized artefact? Not to the point, we think, of ever being able to fall “in love” with it.
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!