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This book offers an extensive historical, philosophical and ethical discussion on the role of autonomous technologies, and their influence on human identity. By connecting those different perspectives, and analysing some practical case studies, it guides readers to dissect the relationship between machine and human autonomy, and machine and human identity. It analyses how the relationship between human and technology has been evolving in the last few centuries. Last, it aims at proposing an explanation on the reason/s why humans have been keen on developing their own autonomy's perfect avatar

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I Technology's Philosophical Meanings -- 1 Contemporary Prometheus -- 1.1 Insights from the Past -- 1.2 Human Creation of a Technological Divine -- 1.3 Radical Overturnings -- 2 First Case in Point: Autonomous Technologies -- 2.1 Making Technologies Autonomous, Making Humans Automated -- 2.2 A Case in Point: Autonomous Vehicles -- 2.3 Autonomous Vehicles and the Moral Machine -- 2.4 Trading Humans' Autonomy for Technology's Automation as Scapegoating -- 3 Second Case in Point: Self-Tracking Technologies and the Quantified Self -- 3.1 The Destiny of the Self in Technologies of the Self -- 3.2 Quantified je ne sais quoi from Health to Happiness -- 3.3 Radical Particularisation and Anarchism: Crisis of Ideal Models? -- 3.4 Reshaping Humans' Core Identity: Trading Autonomy for Automation -- Part II Challenges of the Future -- 4 Epistemological Challenges -- 4.1 Philosophical Questions -- 4.2 Plausible Scenarios -- 5 Human Identity's Challenges -- 5.1 Philosophical Questions -- 5.2 Plausible Scenarios -- 6 Ethical Challenges -- 6.1 Philosophical Questions -- 6.2 Plausible Scenarios -- Conclusion -- References.

In Technology and Anarchy: A Reading of Our Era, Simona Chiodo argues that our technological era can be read as the most radical form of anarchism ever experienced. People are not only removing the role of the expert as a mediator, but also trying, for the first time in history, to replace the role of a transcendent god itselft by creating, especially through information technology, a totally immanent technological entity characterized by the typical ontological prerogatives of the divine: omnipresence (by being everywhere), omniscience (by knowing everthing, especially about us), omnipotence (by having power, especially over us), and inscrutability--back cover

Taking sleep-tracking as its case study, this article seeks to theorise the understandings of the self that are at stake in the Quantified Self (QS) movement and everyday self-tracking practices by bringing together a cultural theorist's and a philosopher's perspectives. We situate the rise of sleep-tracking practices within the sleep crisis discourse, namely, the sense that in today's society sleep disorders are on the rise and sleep deprivation is rife. Through analyses of self-trackers' blogs about sleep, sleep-tracking technologies' marketing information, and the functionalities of these devices and apps, we argue that the drive to self-improve at the heart of self- and sleep-tracking props up an understanding of the self that is centred around achievement. This understanding ends up devaluing sleep and risks contributing to the sleep crisis. We show how these paradoxes can be further understood from an epistemological perspective. Self- and sleep-tracking are arguably practices that seek to obtain knowledge by trading referential expert knowledge for self-referential nonexpert knowledge and that strive for self-optimisation by self-sabotaging achievement subjectivity. We conclude that the use of self-tracking technologies magnifies what is essentially a crisis of subjectivity.

Introduction: What Improving Technology through Ethics Means -- An Ethnographer Among the Engineers: Doing STS at a Technical University -- Future Medicine: Towards a More Conscious and Ethical Communication -- Data Quality, Data Diversity and Data Provenance: An Ethical Perspective -- Ethics-aware Application of Digital Technologies in the Construction Industry -- Drawing Together: Technology Development for Public Service -- Addressing Big Data Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa for Responsible AI Development -- Social and Technological Innovation: Cross-Fertilization Needed.

Part I. Valuation science. Judgement, value and truth -- Chapter 1. Issues and prospects of Valuation Science -- Chapter 2. Appraisal: some consideration from the past and a challenge for the future -- Chapter 3. Why foundations …? Evaluation as civic commitment -- Chapter 4. The Inextricability of Fact and Value -- Chapter 5. The Tip and the Bottom. What Makes an Estimate True? -- Chapter 6. Valuating valuations: the case of happiness as oikeiosis -- Chapter 7. Values and valuation -- Part II. Valuation and values: earth and the cities -- Chapter 8. The value creation in our "Regime d'historicitè" -- Chapter 9. Axiology of urban quality. The city as a functioning system -- Chapter 10. The great concentration. Demography, economy, real estate values and the development of Italian metropolitan cities. -- Chapter 11. The evaluation of Urban Commons, a few theoretical-methodological considerations -- Chapter 12. Social discount rate in balance between intergenerational solidarity and economic feasibility -- Chapter 13. Teaching Appraisal: remarks for optimization, etc.