Cyborg: Smartphone Reliance, AI and Transhumanism - Softcover

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This book centres on dependency; specifically, dependency on the smartphone in its current manifestation, with a view to what it will morph-into with advances in the sciences that underpin it. The work does not presuppose that this either a negative or positive influence on the development of mankind; but does accept the premise that the reliance on a device makes it an appendage of the man or woman who manages [relies upon] the device. The device is a machine which provides communication of information from the internet and offers alternative courses of action predicated upon that information, as well as providing a linkage with other persons [via texting and voice transmission-reception]. Its capacity to calendar and subsequently ‘remind of obligations’ has come to control the behaviour of the individual operant. Smartphones are not currently attached to the body as envisaged in the definitions of cyborg, but the Apple-watch, which is no longer necessarily relinquished (un-handed) during the course of a day points to a time when attachment will be accepted. Size of device is no longer a barrier, voice is limited only by speaker capability and reading only limited by screen size [and shape]. The last may soon be overcome by a form of projection of the screen-image. The latest available (reliable) figures show 63% of all people in the world are using cellphones (2016). The American proliferation of cellphones has exploded by more than 100% in seven years according the Pew Research Group – with more than 98% of adults under 49 years old using them. Contributions from Artificial Intelligence development, Automation and Transhumanism are also addressed in the text.

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