Say That Again?
We know that we are way out of our league, or in over our head, when we can't even grok the sub-title on a book that we would really like to read and understand.Our current example, although the book was originally published almost eight years ago, is "The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet."
The publisher's abstract/description helps a bit, but still leaves us puzzled.
"It may be trite to say that new technology changes the way we see ourselves and the world, but it's crucial that we explore those changes fully. In The Robot in the Garden, computer scientist Ken Goldberg curates a collection of essays on telerobotics by critics, philosophers, and engineers, addressing questions as fundamental as, "How does mediation affect the knowledge we acquire?"
Yet at the same time there are a few references in the books promo material that caught our eye, and got us thinking.
For example:
"How we do define identity over the Internet and other electronic means of distant communication."
"Knowing that we know something is hard enough without miles of cables between our minds and the objects of our knowledge, but is technologically mediated information really different in kind?"
Robot in the Garden
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