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Brave New Network: The Gambit of Living Automated Lives

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The Precarious Future of Education

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For more than 50 years computers have been programmed to engage in creative discourse. For the past 20 years, artificial or machine intelligence has been able to augment, collaborate and at times invent human forms of creative expression. The increasingly globalized presence of mobile technology greatly influences our communicative behaviors and practices, and many of our interactions with digital devices are automated at every stage in our transactions with them, from suggesting next words and phrases in a text message to formatting, transmitting, even translating it into speech in a different language spoken by a quasi-realistic human voice. As ever-greater portions of daily life are mediated, networked, recorded and observed, our worlds become increasingly adapted to and dependent on automated systems.

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James, K. (2017). Brave New Network: The Gambit of Living Automated Lives. In: jagodzinski, j. (eds) The Precarious Future of Education. Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48691-2_9

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