Wiki – Laboratoire Ex situ / René Audet

Référence : FLORIDI, Luciano, The 4th revolution: how the infosphere is reshaping human reality, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 248 p.

Synthèse : Floridi, référence d’Oxford en matière de philosophie des Nouvelles Technologies, explore ici son concept d’hyperhistoire et surtout la manière dont les technologies transforment la réalité humaine. Particulièrement pertinent pour l’expérientialité (notamment le premier chapitre sur l’identité) même si rien ne semble spécifiquement porter sur la littérature.

Mots-clés : Hyperhistory, Human reality, Turing revolution, Information and Communication Technologies

Langue : Anglais

Format : Papier

Description existante : « Who are we? And what is our role in the universe? Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is radically changing not only how we deal with the world and make sense of it, or interact with each other, but also how we look at ourselves and understand our own nature, existence, and responsibilities. In this book, written for non-experts, I discuss such impact of ICTs on our lives and on our self-understanding. I suggest that ICTs are bringing about a fourth revolution, in the long process of reassessment of humanity’s fundamental nature and role in the universe. We are not immobile, at the centre of the universe (Copernican revolution); we are not unnaturally distinct and different from the rest of the animal world (Darwinian revolution); and we are far from being entirely transparent to ourselves (Freudian revolution). ICTs are now making us realise that we are not disconnected agents, but informational organisms (inforgs), who share with other kinds of agents a global environment, ultimately made of information, the infosphere (Turing revolution). In light of this conclusion, I argue that we should upgrade our philosophy and expand our ecological and ethical approach to both natural and man-made realities, in order to cope successfully with the new challenges posed by ICTs. », trouvé sur https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/books/the-fourth-revolution/, le 8 mars 2017.

Compte rendu existant : WILSON, T.D., « The author’s central proposition is that humankind has experienced three stages of development, which he labels, prehistory - the period before the invention of writing; history - all that has happened since that invention; and ‘hyperhistory’ - upon which we have only recently entered, and defined by the author as the situation in which: « human progress and welfare [have] begun to be not just related to, but mostly dependent on, the successful and efficient management of the life cycle of information. » (…) The rest of the book, essentially, is about how third-order technology and information technology in general is reshaping, as the sub-title has it, human reality. This is accomplished through eight chapters dealing with identity, self-understanding, privacy, intelligence, agency, politics, environment and, very briefly, ethics. », trouvé sur http://www.informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs566.html, le 8 mars 2017.