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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Alfonso Ballesteros;Alfonso Ballesteros;This paper aims to help fill this gap by examining digitalisation as a form of government (digitocracy) and the way it shapes a new kind of man: animal digitalis. I argue that the digitalised man is animal-like rather than machine-like. This man does not use efficient and cold machine-like language, but is rather emotionalised through digital technology. If those who are ruled acted like machines, data would not be produced on a mass scale, and machine learning would stop learning. Digital man has animal features and is ruled by his brain&rsquo s reward system. We need to abandon this new form of government and the resulting man. To overcome digitalisation, we need a humanism that recovers the proper place of man over animals and artefacts, but maintains respect for the value of nature. Digitalisation is attracting much scholarly attention at present. However, scholars often take its benefits for granted, overlooking the essential question: &ldquo Does digital technology make us better?&rdquo
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Publisher:MDPI AG Authors: Alfonso Ballesteros;Alfonso Ballesteros;This paper aims to help fill this gap by examining digitalisation as a form of government (digitocracy) and the way it shapes a new kind of man: animal digitalis. I argue that the digitalised man is animal-like rather than machine-like. This man does not use efficient and cold machine-like language, but is rather emotionalised through digital technology. If those who are ruled acted like machines, data would not be produced on a mass scale, and machine learning would stop learning. Digital man has animal features and is ruled by his brain&rsquo s reward system. We need to abandon this new form of government and the resulting man. To overcome digitalisation, we need a humanism that recovers the proper place of man over animals and artefacts, but maintains respect for the value of nature. Digitalisation is attracting much scholarly attention at present. However, scholars often take its benefits for granted, overlooking the essential question: &ldquo Does digital technology make us better?&rdquo
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euAccess Routesgold 2 citations 2 popularity Top 10% influence Top 10% impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Philosophies arrow_drop_down PhilosophiesOther literature type . Article . 2020 . Peer-reviewedLicense: CC BYFull-Text: http://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/5/2/9/pdfadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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