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The digital age

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Floridi's 'infosphere'?

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Floridi's 'infosphere'?

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The whole environment of information and digital life we now live inside — we're residents of it, not just visitors.

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Information ethics (Floridi)?

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The idea that information and data can be helped or harmed, so we owe duties of care — keep it truthful, protected and unpolluted.

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New challenges from AI and robotics?

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Could a machine think or feel? Who's responsible when AI harms? Is a robot's care a real relationship or a clever fake?

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New challenges from biotechnology?

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If we can edit our genes, should we? Where's the line between healing and upgrading a human? Do we risk designing people to order?

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Why are AI/biotech questions 'new'?

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They revive old questions (minds, responsibility, human nature) but make them urgent — because now we can actually act on them.

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Social constructivism (technology)?

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Technology and society co-create each other, hand in hand — neither is fully in charge; the tool and the culture make each other.

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Marx on technology?

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The means of production (tools, machines, methods) shape the economic base and so the whole social order — change the tech, change the order.

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Social constructivism vs Marx?

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Constructivism keeps it two-way and balanced; Marx tilts the arrow — technology of production comes first and drags society behind it.

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