The New Definition of Personhood
Jaron Lanier has now submitted the abstract of his speech at the Dresden Future Forum.
In his speech, he is going to review the impact of technologies on personal lifestyles.
What we value in ourselves changes significantly with the qualities of the technologies in our lives. The specific nature of the changes depends on the specific technological designs. I understand myself to be engaged in a struggle over competing visions of the future of personhood. Personhood will be defined by the use scenarios left unspecified by technology designers…
