| Is Digital Flesh the anti-thesis of Artificial Intelligence? AI talks about machines that have the ability of logical reasoning. In fact, machines that have intelligence. Digital Flesh on the other hand talks about humans embracing augmented information aquisition, manipulation and output. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker describes what they perceive as a new "virtual class" that's taking over the digital realm. It is a high-tech, post-burgeouise, virtual community so obsessed with technology that it is about to spawn a new species, a melding of man and machine that the Krokers call "digital flesh" To succeed, this virtual class must rely on the "neo-masa" called "surplus flesh". Shades of the Matrix, 1984, Blade Runner, and even Soylent Green. Is this where we are headed off to? Discover why the digital divide is getting wider and wider even as the costs of computing gets cheaper and the speed of communicating gets faster. |
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