Intimate technology
Description
Unknowns with computer glasses that recognise your face and emotions. Companies with rich databases that know what we covet and influence our buying behaviour. Foreign secret services watching us by intercepting our private mail. Robots that keep demented people company and war games that are so real you feel sorry for the avatar you have to take out - according to the rules of the game. Harmlessly, we embrace one seductive technology after another. But are we mere consumers, getting all that beauty almost for free? Or are we also the raw material of the information revolution, from which others benefit? High time to consider how close technology is allowed to get to us and where unwanted intimacy begins. In this lecture, Rinie van Est discusses that political, economic and social struggle for our intimacy
Speaker(s)
Dr.ir. Rinie van Est is research coordinator and trend catcher at the Rathenau Institute. He is a physicist and political scientist and deals with the politics of emerging technologies. He also teaches at the sub-faculty of Technical Innovation Sciences at TU Eindhoven. Recent books he has contributed to are Life as a kit: Ethical exploration of a new technological wave (2009), Check in / Check out: Digitising public space (2010), Pre-programmed: How the internet guides our lives (2012) and Robots Everywhere: Automation from love to death (2012) and Intimate technology: The battle over our bodies and behaviour (2014)
Location
Utrecht
Organiser
Philosophy & Technology
Name and contact details for information
Further information from drs.ing. Henk Uijttenhout (vz), tel: 070 - 3875293 / 06 - 26715554 or via the e-mail address below