Abstract
The Cognitive Society is one in which ubiquitous, convergent cognitive technologies inform human decisions, actions, and health. In this chapter, we consider the impacts of current and future knowledge in human and machine cognition on a society in which the culture, including popular opinion as well as the educational curriculum, has significantly incorporated the findings and methods of cognitive science. We introduce the cognitive envelope, a framework allowing the mapping of spatiotemporal interactions of technology and cognition and examining the temporal and spatial scales over which we have cognitive access. Beginning with contemporary technology and projecting to the future, we draw the trajectories of three scenarios of speculation, in perceptual, cognitive, and social realms, which have the potential to reshape the cognitive envelope to twenty-first-century needs. As the convergent technology landscape unfolds, a rising science of cognition will provide decision-makers with the tools to choose the best outcomes for a Cognitive Society that would promote competitiveness, health, and security to individuals and nations.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Aimone JB, Wiles J, Gage FH (2006) Potential role for adult neurogenesis in the encoding of time in new memories. Nat Neurosci 9:723–727
Amedi A, Stern WM, Camprodon JA et al (2007) Shape conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex. Nat Neurosci 10:687–689
Bach-y-Rita P, Tyler ME, Kaczmarek KA (2003) Seeing with the Brain. Int J Hum Comput Interact 15(2):285–295
Bach-y-Rita P, Tyler ME, Kaczmarek KA (2005) Int J Hum Comput Interact 15(2):285–295
Berger TW, Hampson RE, Song D et al (2011) A cortical neural prosthesis for restoring and enhancing memory. J Neural Eng 8:046017
Cheng G, Fitzsimmons NA, Morimoto J, Lebedev MA, Kawato M, Nicolelis MA (2007) Bipedal locomotion with a humanoid robot controlled by cortical ensemble activity. Paper presented at: annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego
Dalla-Barba G, La Corte V (2013) The hippocampus: a time machine that makes errors. Trends Cogn Sci 17:102–104
Di Pino G, Maravita A, Zollo L et al (2014) Augmentation-related brain plasticity. Front Syst Neurosci 8:109
Elli GV, Benetti S, Collignon O (2014) Is there a future for sensory substitution outside academic laboratories? Multisens Res 27:271–291
Gazzaniga MS (2008) The law and neuroscience. Neuron 60:412–415
Katsuki Y, Yamakawa Y, Ishikawa M (2015) High-speed human/robot hand interaction system. In: Proceedings of the tenth annual ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction extended abstracts (ACM), pp 117–118. Portland, USA
Kaufman SB (2013) The real neuroscience of creativity beautiful minds. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-real-neuroscience-of-creativity/
Kelly K (2014) The three breakthroughs that have finally unleashed AI on the world. Wired, Oct 2014
LeCun Y, Bengio Y, Hinton G (2015) Deep learning. Nature 521:436–444
Maidenbaum S, Abboud S, Amedi A (2014) Sensory substitution: closing the gap between basic research and widespread practical visual rehabilitation. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 41:3–15
McCabe DP, Castel AD (2008) Seeing is believing: the effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning. Cognition 107:343–352
Merabet LB, Pascual-Leone A (2010) Neural reorganization following sensory loss: the opportunity of change. Nat Rev Neurosci 11:44–52
Mongiat LA, Schinder AF (2014) A price to pay for adult neurogenesis. Science 344:594–595
Newell A (1990) Unified theories of cognition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Nirenberg S, Pandarinath C (2012) A retinal prosthetic strategy with the capacity to restore normal vision. Proc Natl Acad Sci 109:15012–15017
Olds J (2015) The convergence of neuroscience and engineering and neurotechnology: perspectives on the past glimpses of the future. Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence
Previc FH (1998) The neuropsychology of 3-D space. Psychol Bull 124:123–164
Richards W (1973) Time reproduction by H.M. Acta Psychol (Amst) 37:279–282
Riggins FJ, Samuel FW (2015) Research Directions on the Adoption, Usage, and Impact of the Internet of Things through the Use of Big Data Analytics. In System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on, pp. 1531–1540. IEEE
Robbins TW (2011) Cognition: the ultimate brain function. Neuropsychopharmacology 36:1–2
Wilson M (2002) Six views of embodied cognition. Psychon Bull Rev 9:625–636
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding authors
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this entry
Cite this entry
Oliva, A., Teng, S. (2016). Cognitive Society. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_48
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_48
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-07051-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-07052-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering