Open AccessThe Future Has Already Happened
Author(s) -
Alex Levant
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2561-4770
DOI - 10.28984/ct.v2i1.264
Subject(s) - dystopia , vision , aesthetics , contrast (vision) , environmental ethics , look ahead , epistemology , sociology , political science , philosophy , computer science , law , artificial intelligence , anthropology , algorithm
This article interrogates current conceptions of thinking machines of the future. In contrast to dystopian visions of the future, where humans become dominated by machines of their own making, I argue that this future already happened some time ago, and that we are, in fact, already living in the future that we dread might come to pass.