{"product_id":"9781922633385-here-be-monsters-is-technology-reducing-our-humanity","title":"Here Be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity?","description":"\u003cp\u003eTechnology is developing fast – so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are rewriting the terms of our existence, not in a neutral spirit of ‘progress’ but in line with the priorities of power and profit, and in ways that often work against the grain of our fundamental being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this timely, provocative book, Richard King argues that we need to evolve a more critical attitude to new technologies if we are to avoid a world in which humans are no different in kind from algorithmic machines. The stakes could not be higher. As science, technology and capitalism fuse into a single system, and activists and entrepreneurs talk of a ‘post-human’ future in which individuals will transform themselves using powerful computers and biotechnologies, we are entering unchartered territory – a territory marked with the mapmaker’s warning, Here Be Dragons ... Here Be Monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monash University Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44374242263176,"sku":"9781922633385","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0371\/3443\/4440\/files\/here-be-monsters-is-technology-reducing-our-humanity-9781922633385-4022700.jpg?v=1761199097","url":"https:\/\/littlelostbookshop.com.au\/products\/9781922633385-here-be-monsters-is-technology-reducing-our-humanity","provider":"The Little Lost Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}