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A Look into the Future Impact of ICT on Our Lives 

Author: Luciano Floridi ab
Affiliations:   a Dipartimento di Scienze Filosofiche, Universitagrave degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
b Faculty of Philosophy and IEG, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
DOI: 10.1080/01972240601059094
Publication Frequency: 5 issues per year
Published in: journal The Information Society, Volume 23, Issue 1 December 2007 , pages 59 - 64
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Abstract

This paper may be read as a sequel to a 1995 paper, published in this journal, in which I predicted what sort of transformations and problems were likely to affect the development of the Internet and our system of organized knowledge in the medium term. In this second attempt, I look at the future developments of information and communication technologies and try to estimate what their impact on our lives will be. The forecast is that, in information societies, the threshold between online and offline will soon disappear, and that once there is no difference, we shall become not cyborgs but rather inforgs, that is, connected informational organisms.
Keywords: cyborgs; digital environment; inforgs; infosphere; IT entities; reontologization
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