Re-Engineering Humanity

Half title
Reviews
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction
	Welcome to the Experience Machine n.0
	Humanity’s Techno-Social Dilemma
	The Structure of the Book
Part I
	Chapter 1 Engineering Humans
		Introduction
		Fitbits at Oral Roberts University
		Different Forms of Tracking and Their Consequences
		Surveillance Creep
		Bedtime and Bathtime Surveillance
	Chapter 2 Cogs in the Machine of Our Own Lives
		Introduction
		Actuated Navigation
		Bodies, Technology, and Outsourcing Creep
	Chapter 3 Techno-Social Engineering Creep and the Slippery-Sloped Path
		Slippery Slope Arguments
		From Activity Watches to Brain Scans?
		The Slippery-Sloped Path and the Forces that Drive Us
Part II
	Chapter 4 Tools for Engineering Humans
		Introduction
		Tool Use: The Basics
		Shaping and Being Shaped by Tools
		Fetishized Computers and Idealized Computation
		Taylor’s Scientific Management of Human Beings
		Taylorism Criticized Yet Expanding
	Chapter 5 Engineering Humans with Contracts
		Introduction
		The Experience of Electronic Contracting
		Electronic Contracting and Taylorism
		Humanity’s Techno-Social Dilemma Revisited
		Contract Creep
	Chapter 6 On Extending Minds and Mind Control
		Introduction
		Extending Ourselves: Background and Examples
			Technologically Extended Bodies: Contemporary Experiences
			Cognition: Extended and Distributed
			Cognitive Technology
		Extended Mind
		Extended Mind and Techno-Social Engineering
		Intrusion and Uncontrollability
		Mind Extension and Human Capabilities
	Chapter 7 The Path to Smart Techno-Social Environments
		Introduction
		Mass Media and the Reconfiguration of Our Lived-In Environments
		The Internet and Networked Digital Media
		Facebook’s Emotional Engineering Experiment
	Chapter 8 Techno-Social Engineering of Humans through Smart Environments
		Introduction
		Smart Techno-Social Environments
		How Smart Should Our Shared Infrastructure Be?
		Smart Media/Mediation
	Chapter 9 #RelationshipOptimization
		Digital Companions
			Linguistic Coaching, Impersonation, and Digital Immortality
			Martha’s Disenchantment
			Autonomy, Reductionism, and Meaningful Relationships
			Sociological Skepticism
		Automating Relationships
			Chawla’s Cautionary Tale
			Mood Walls in Smart Homes
			Predictables
		Algorithmic Bloodhounds
			Period Tracking
			Debating Tracking
			Menstruation Tracking and Beyond
		Creep
Part III
	Chapter 10 Turing Tests and the Line between Humans and Machines
		Introduction
		Turing Test: A Brief Overview and Literature Review
		Turing Test as Useful Tool
		The Human Side of the Turing Line
	Chapter 11 Can Humans Be Engineered to Be Incapable of Thinking?
		Introduction
		Intelligence: Thinking and Not-Thinking
		Techno-Social Engineering Test Focused on Mathematical Computation
		Techno-Social Engineering Test Focused on Generating Not-So-Random Numbers
		Techno-Social Engineering Test Focused on Rationality
		Techno-Social Engineering Test Focused on Common Sense
		Lost and Found
	Chapter 12 Engineered Determinism and Free Will
		Introduction
		Natural Determinism and a Pragmatic Wager
		Engineered Determinism
		Free Will and Autonomy
		Practical Agency: Freedom to Act and Exercise One’s Own Will
		Techno-Social Engineering Tests on Free Will
			Moral Decision-Making
			Regret as a System 1 Trigger for Reflection and Self-Determination
			Reflecting on and Determining Our Own Beliefs
			Reflecting on and Determining our Intentions to Act
	Chapter 13 To What End?
		Introduction
		Revisiting Humanity’s Techno-Social Dilemma
		Frog Soup
		Revisiting Nozick’s Thought Experiment and Life on the Experience Machine
		Revisiting the Experience Machine n.0 – Life in the Machine/World
		Life as a Machine: The Power to Control Minds, Make Humans into Things, and Determine What Other People Do
Part IV
	Chapter 14 Conclusion: Reimagining and Building Alternative Futures
		What Are We Rebelling Against?
		Environmental Humanism
		Capabilities
		Experience Machines and Paternalism
		Play
		Semantic Discontinuity
		From Logics to Strategies
		Challenge Conventional Wisdom with Critical Analysis
		Solving the Fake News Problem with a New Social Media Platform
		Net Neutrality and Beyond
		Support Human Flourishing by Engineering Transaction Costs and Inefficiencies
		Legal Reforms for Electronic Contracting
		Two Extreme Proposals
		Our Three Proposals
		May 25, 2018: Time for Change
Appendices
	Appendix A Mass Media and the First Amendment
	Appendix B Perspectives on the Turing Test
	Appendix C Our Free Will Discussion
	Appendix D Modern Meal Times
	Appendix E Rethinking Contract Theory
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1 Engineering Humans
	Chapter 2 Cogs in the Machine of Our Own Lives
	Chapter 3 Techno-Social Engineering Creep and the Slippery-Sloped Path
	Chapter 4 Tools for Engineering Humans
	Chapter 5 Engineering Humans with Contracts
	Chapter 6 On Extending Minds and Mind Control
	Chapter 7 The Path to Smart Techno-Social Environments
	Chapter 8 Techno-Social Engineering of Humans through Smart Environments
	Chapter 9 #RelationshipOptimization
	Chapter 10 Turing Tests and the Line between Humans and Machines
	Chapter 11 Can Humans Be Engineered to Be Incapable of Thinking?
	Chapter 12 Engineered Determinism and Free Will
	Chapter 13 To What End?
	Chapter 14 Conclusion: Reimagining and Building Alternative Futures
	Appendix B Perspectives on the Turing Test
	Appendix C Our Free Will Discussion
	Appendix D Modern Meal Times
	Appendix E Rethinking Contract Theory
Bibliography
Index