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someone who has a background in both computer science and philosophy, i found there to be a general lack of nuance in the technological conundrums discussed in these essays.
are there huge ethical concerns in the field of technology amp artificial intelligence specifically yes, do i think this book did justice to those concerns no, Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.


In The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas, Roberto Simanowski wonders if we are on the brink of a society that views social, political, and ethical challenges as technological problems that can be fixed with the right algorithm, the best data, or the fastest computer.
For example, the “death algorithm” is programmed into a driverless car to decide, in an emergency, whether to plow into a group of pedestrians, a mother and child, or a brick wall.
Can such lifeanddeath decisions no longer be left to the individual human

In these incisive essays, Simanowski asks us to consider what it means to be living in a time when the president of the United States declares the mainstream media to be an enemy of the peoplewhile Facebook transforms the people into the enemy of mainstream media.
Simanowski describes smartphone zombies or “smombies” who remove themselves from the physical world to the parallel universe of social media networks calls on Adorno to help parse Trump's tweeting considers transmedia cannibalism, as written text is transformed into a postliterate object compares the economic and social effects of the sharing economy to a sixteenwheeler running over a plastic bottle on the road and explains why philosophy mat become the most important element in the automotive and technology industries.
Verging on, given the penultimate essay is randomly riddled with typos and type errors, but the subject matter comes through brilliantly overall.
Roberto clearly feels the dissonance between our physical lives and those we lead on the phone, including the collapse of “space” that occurs as we disengage, such as using our phones while walking, when getting from Point A to Point B.


The book is very approachable, given the subject matter, by being broken down into a more digestible essays that have a unified subject matter, rather than a single thread to follow throughout.


A huge thanks to MIT Press for translating all these works in their Untimely Meditations series.
Its nice to be able to read the work of modern philosophers without having to worry my German will let me down.
Will encourage me to buy the original text of my favorites, too, for subsequent rereading, Given the contents of this book, I dont feel like I should be rating it at all.
Theres no need to increase its digital capital, and that may not even be healthy, but I thoroughly

enjoyed this book and found it to be an insightful take on many postmodern, digital dilemmas.
A truly engrossing and exciting read, And its a series of short essays as well, So its very easily digestible, Roberto Simanowski is a German scholar of media and cultural studies and the author of Digital Art and Meaning, Data Love, Facebook Society, Waste: A New Media Primer, and The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas the last two published by the MIT Press.
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