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The new ‘smartwatch’, and soon ‘smartglasses’, will bring about a greater integration of the internet in our daily lives. These developments are being paralleled by an increasing number of ‘intelligent’ computer devices embedded in the physical environment, creating a so-called ‘Internet of Things’. At the same time, our atmosphere is now saturated with artificially propagated electromagnetic fields at densities far above what is found in nature. As we are swept towards the merger of real and virtual realities, the question arises as to how we can work towards a future in which truly human values can survive.
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Jeremy Naydler
Jeremy Naydler, Ph.D, is the author of several books on religious experience in antiquity, and has also written a number of essays on technology, including ‘Technology and the soul’, and ‘The struggle for a human future’, available from Abzu Press (www.abzupress.co.uk). He is currently researching a book on the pre-history of the computer.