The Future of You
eBook - ePub

The Future of You

Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology?

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eBook - ePub

The Future of You

Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology?

About this book

In the future, how many identities will you have? How many do you want? Digital technology is causing us to think differently about who we are and who we could become, but with the right knowledge we can turn this incredible capacity to our advantage.
'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental questions of all. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to answer as technology enables us to negotiate and create many different versions of ourselves.
In our digital, data-driven world, Facebook gets a say in verifying who we are, science can alter our biology, and advances in AI are revolutionizing not only how we interact online but with the physical world around us. Understanding and defining ourselves is becoming confusing but, as this fascinating book argues, it is possible to embrace this new era of transformation while preserving our autonomy.
In The Future of You, professional futurist Tracey Follows shows how our personal freedoms and potential will be transformed over the coming decades. From health passports, bio-hacking and relationships with machines to mind clones, digital voting, and virtual legacies beyond the grave, we need to understand these vital issues today so that we might design the future of our identity tomorrow.

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Information

Publisher
Elliott & Thompson
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781783965465
Edition
0
Subtopic
Sociology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: Distributing You
  5. 1. Knowing You
  6. 2. Watching You
  7. 3. Creating You
  8. 4. Connecting You
  9. 5. Replacing You
  10. 6. Enhancing You
  11. 7. Destroying You
  12. Conclusion
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. References
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Copyright