Predicted Humans: Emerging Technologies and the Burden of Sensemaking

This book reflects on seminal texts in western culture to argue that predicting our future renders much of our existence the automated effect of various causes, which, in turn, helps to alleviate the existential burden of autonomously making sense of our lives in a more competitive, demanding, accelerated society.

Simona Chiodo is Professor of Philosophy at Politecnico di Milano. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Edinburgh, Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh and spent research stays at Harvard University. She was also Academic Visitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is member of the Technology Foresight Centre of Politecnico di Milano. Her last works focus on the relationship between technological innovation and human autonomy.