luciano floridi
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Happiness Onlife
Luciano Floridi
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford
Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Faculty Fellow, Chair of the Data Ethics Group, The Alan Turing Institute
@Floridi | [email protected]
“to cleave”
a) “to split or sever something”, especially
along a natural line or grain;
b) “to stick fast or adhere strongly to”
something.
a) Old English cleofan, related to the German
klieben (to cut through);
b) Old English clifian, related to the
German kleben (to stick or cling).
Digital’s cleaving power
Cut and Paste
presence ≠ location
law ≠ territoriality
ownership ≠ usage
agency ≠ intelligence
production ++ consumption
authenticity + memory = blockchain
information + identity = data subject
offline + online = onlife
presence ≠ location
law ≠ territoriality
ownership ≠ usage
agency ≠ intelligence
production ++ consumption
authenticity + memory
analog + digital
Information + identity
Happy onlife?
analog + digital = infosphere
eudamonia in the infosphere
Risks: escapism (absence), absorption
(attention), alienation (distraction).
Opportunities: empowerment and
control, enrichment and fulfillment.
Digital’s cleaving power
many stones, plenty of design
design for onlife eudamonia
Invention
Discovery
Design
Innovation
[discovery][invention]
design
Pandora’s box: hope
The Human Project• Capitalism ≠ Consumerism
• Capitalism + Fostering
• Firms as Good Citizens
• Firms as Political Agents for Good
The digital age is
the age of design.
It should be the age
of good design.
THANK YOU
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