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5 Introduction: A Personal Journey into Digi-land Origins: time and uncertainty; science, technology and society The maze and the labyrinth The road ahead: how to live forward and understand life backwards
6 1 Life in the Digital Time Machine Between the mud and the sky: the birth of the digital Anthropocene The past reaches the present and the (visible) future has arrived The open horizon of the future
7 2 Welcome to the Mirror World A mirror world in the making Humans and their digital others Identity anxieties: loss and redefinition of the self
8 3 The Quest for Public Happiness and the Narrative of Progress The contagiousness of narratives Breadfruit, potatoes and the idea of progress Human enhancement, control and care
9 4 Future Needs Wisdom Why wisdom is needed Pathologies of AI: ethics is more than a checklist The enduring lure of the Leviathan
10 5 Disruption: From BC (Before COVID-19) to AD (After Domestication) What a biological virus teaches us about our bodies in a digital world The domestication of work From domestication to self-domestication
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