Chapter 6: Enhancing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

About this episode

This episode discusses how emerging technologies are reshaping personal identity and the concept of self.

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition: Chapter 6: Enhancing You — The F...

People in this episode

Host: Tracey Follows

Topics covered

• identity
• technology
• artificial intelligence
• digital identity
• genomics
• personal identity

Keywords

• identity
• technology
• artificial intelligence
• digital identity
• genomics
• self

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Books & works: The Future of You

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