Food for thought.
At TEDxTwenteU, Peter-Paul Verbeek talks about the ethics of behavior-influencing technologies.
Peter-Paul Verbeek is a Philosopher of Technology. He is a professor at the Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society department and president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology. After Veni and Vidi in 2015, he had received the Vici-grant worth 1.5 million euros for his research on the intertwining between human existence and technology.
First published 20 February 2018
Michael has spent much of his working life online—and much of the rest of it trying to stop that technology taking over. He has thrown a phone into a lake, locked devices in boxes and experimented with long periods offline. He writes about what helped, what failed and how to keep the useful parts of digital life.