How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits: Rossana Pasquino: Praeger

How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior

Issues and Benefits

How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior

Issues and Benefits

Description

Explains some of the ways in which technological advances are altering, for better or worse, large-scale human behavior, thought processes, and critical thinking skills.

Recent technological advances—from dating apps to artificial insemination, from "smart" phones to portable computers that can instantly search the World Wide Web for information, and from robots performing surgery to cars driving themselves—once remarkable, have become an unremarkable part of our lives. The team of authors of this book asks, "How are they changing us?"

We all recognize that these innovations have altered our lives, often making them easier, but it is also important to ask if we have lost anything while we have gained from them. The authors of How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior: Issues and Benefits show that human behaviors and thinking skills are rapidly being reprogrammed by technology, with even more developments on the horizon sure to further alter our future and shape our identity.

Foreword
Rossana Pasquino
Introduction: Technology Is Changing Us
C. G. Prado
Chapter 1 The Robotization of Everything
Lawrie McFarlane
Chapter 2 On Passing as Human and Robot Love
Babette Babich
Chapter 3 Who Is Responsible for a Self-Driving Car?
Chris Beeman
Chapter 4 Who's Your Mama? Assisted Reproductive Technology and the Meaning of Motherhood
Jennifer Parks
Chapter 5 Screen Autism, Cell Phone Zombies, and GPS Mutes
Babette Babich
Chapter 6 Technology in the Hands of Children: Helpful Tools or Harmful Distractions?
Lisa Menard
Chapter 7 Learning in an Age of Digital Distraction: Education versus Consumption
Chris Beeman
Chapter 8 The Kids Are All Right: Lessons from the March for Our Lives
Jason Hannan
Chapter 9 Anonymity and (Mis)representation on Social Media Are Changing Who We Are and How We Think About Identity
Jessica Lowell Mason
Chapter 10 Deep Fakes and Computer Vision: The Paradox of New Images
Lisa Portmess
About the Editor and Contributors
Index