Technophobia! : : Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology / / Daniel Dinello.
Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will comple...
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Dinello, Daniel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Technophobia! : Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology / Daniel Dinello. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2006 1 online resource (341 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dreams of Techno-Heaven, Nightmares of Techno-Hell -- One Technology Is God: Machine Transcendence -- Two Haunted Utopias: Artificial Humans and Mad Scientists -- Three Cybernetic Slaves: Robotics -- Four Machines Out of Control: Artificial Intelligence and Androids -- Five Rampaging Cyborgs: Bionics -- Six Infinite Cyberspace Cages: The Internet and Virtual Reality -- Seven Engineered Flesh: Biotechnology -- Eight Malevolent Molecular Machines: Nanotechnology -- Nine Technology Is a Virus: Machine Plague -- Ten Epilogue: Technophobia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will completely shed the shackles of pain, disease, and even death, as human minds are downloaded into death-free robots whereby they can live forever in a heavenly "posthuman" existence. In this techno-utopian future, humanity will be saved by the godlike power of technology. If you believe the authors of science fiction, however, posthuman evolution marks the beginning of the end of human freedom, values, and identity. Our dark future will be dominated by mad scientists, rampaging robots, killer clones, and uncontrollable viruses. In this timely new book, Daniel Dinello examines "the dramatic conflict between the techno-utopia promised by real-world scientists and the techno-dystopia predicted by science fiction." Organized into chapters devoted to robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other significant scientific advancements, this book summarizes the current state of each technology, while presenting corresponding reactions in science fiction. Dinello draws on a rich range of material, including films, television, books, and computer games, and argues that science fiction functions as a valuable corrective to technological domination, countering techno-hype and reflecting the "weaponized, religiously rationalized, profit-fueled" motives of such science. By imaging a disastrous future of posthuman techno-totalitarianism, science fiction encourages us to construct ways to contain new technology, and asks its audience perhaps the most important question of the twenty-first century: is technology out of control? Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Science fiction History and criticism. Technology in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/709546 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292796645 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292796645/original |
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