Predicted Humans: Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking (Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect)

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1 To Be Predicted, Or Not to Be Predicted: That Is the Question
	1.1 Insights From Scripture and Mythology
	1.2 From Insights From Philosophy to “Have You Ever Asked Yourself ‘When Will I Die?’.”
	Notes
	References
2 Death Clocks and Other Emerging Technologies to Predict Our Future
	2.1 The Current Obsession With Technological Prediction
	2.2 Death Clocks
	Notes
	References
3 Prediction and the Automation of Our Future
	3.1 The Fall of Autonomy and the Rise of Automation
	3.2 Oedipus, Macbeth and the Automation of Our (Predicted) Future
	Notes
	References
4 Prediction and the Unbearable Burden of Sensemaking
	4.1 Oedipus, Macbeth and Sensemaking as Our Most Unbearable Burden
	4.2 The Automation of Sensemaking From Philosophy to Art
	Notes
	References
5 Should We Have the Right Not to Be Predicted?
	5.1 Prediction Taken to the Extreme From Literal Death to Metaphorical Death
	5.2 The Wisdom Not to Be Predicted
	Notes
	References
6 Concluding Remarks: Predicted Humans, Individualism and Their Future
	6.1 The Present
	6.2 The Future
	Notes
	References
Index