Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <https://nexa.polito.it/2017/07/bfrischmann> NEXA Incontro con il Prof. BRETT FRISCHMANN Mercoledi 12 luglio 2017, ore 16.00 - 18.00 Politecnico di Torino https://nexa.polito.it/2017/07/bfrischmann To What End? Speaker Prof. Brett Frischmann (The Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events [FRISCHMANN] BRETT FRISCHMANN joins Villanova as The Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics, effective August 1, 2017. He is the 2016-2017 Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information and Technology Policy, Princeton University, and a Professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City, an affiliated scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a trustee for the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino. He teaches courses in intellectual property, Internet law, and technology policy. At Princeton, Frischmann has worked on his next book,/Being Human in the 21st Century: How Social and Technological Tools are Reshaping Humanity/ (Cambridge 2017), which he is co-authoring with RIT philosopher Evan Selinger. He has examined techno-social engineering of humans, various ‘creep’ phenomena (e.g., boilerplate, nudge, and surveillance creep), and modern techno-driven Taylorism, and he has developed a series of human-focused Turing tests to identify and evaluate when humans behave like machines. ABSTRACT Society needs to grapple with the normative implications of 21st century techno-social engineering of humans. And so we must ask the following constitutional questions: # /Who are we?/ # /What sorts of people do we want to be?/ # /What values and capabilities do we possess and commit ourselves to sustain?/ # /What sort of society do we want to build and sustain?/ # /What obligations do we owe to past, present and future generations, and how should such obligations shape the technological and social institutions—or more broadly, the world—we build and sustain?/ The questions are constitutional in the sense that they are the most fundamental intergenerational questions about what constitutes a people, a community, a culture, a society, even a civilization. We will reflect on these fundamental questions by examining three metaphors. First, we explain why /humanity’s techno-social dilemma/ is in fact a dilemma rather than the utopian heaven promised by smart tech boosters. We explain that the shared resource that’s at risk of deterioration and possibly depletion is nothing less than humanity itself. A world where engineered determinism governs is a world where fully predictable and programmable people perform rather than live their lives. Such a world would, in our view, be most tragic. People within such a world could be described as human; they would still qualify as /homo sapiens/. But their normative status as human beings would, in our view, be quite thin. Much of what matters about being human would be lost. To help explain why, we revisit the/experience machine 1.0 and experience machine n.0/ thought experiments. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. 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