...
  • 主题
高级搜索  >
历史搜索 清空历史
首页> 外文期刊>Journal of Infrastructure Systems >Infrastructure in the Anthropocene: Example of Information and Communication Technology
【24h】

Infrastructure in the Anthropocene: Example of Information and Communication Technology

机译：人类世的基础设施：信息和通信技术的示例

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
           
页面导航
  • 摘要
  • 著录项
  • 相似文献
  • 相关主题

摘要

The initial quote from Heideggar cautions us not to be trapped by perceptions that reflect past verities, not present realities, and this discussion indicates that the implications of just one rapidly evolving infrastructure, ICT, are profound. At the same time, it is clear that there are a number of other foundational technologies-nanotechnology, biotechnology, and cognitive sciences come to mind-that are liable to have effects that are just as profound and just as difficult to predict. Moreover, each extends the human into a different domain: the small, consciousness and the infosphere, and, with biotechnology, life itself. In light of these looming technologies, which will cascade through many dimensions of infrastructure design, construction and use, perform an easy thought experiment. Think of an alien looking at the Earth for the first time from its spaceship perspective. What is the most immediate and predominant impression it would get of the world? First, that it is in large part a product of design: the emissions spectrum reflects lights, radio and television, communications networks, and heat emissions from cities; fundamental chemical and physical cycles are impacted by human activity; the biosphere reflects centuries of agriculture, settlement, land use, and, increasingly, engineering at the genomic level. Are there areas of wilderness? Perhaps, but none are pristine, and, like the Florida Everglades, the Alps, or Antarctica, they exist at our suffrage, and increasingly reflect deliberate choice. The world is not a human artifact, but it is a planet that increasingly reflects in the dynamics of most fundamental systems the activities of one species-ours (Turner et al. 1990; Vitousek et al. 1997; Allenby, unpublished working paper, 2002).
机译：海德加的最初引述告诫我们不要被反映过去真实性的感知所困，而不是当前现实，这一讨论表明，仅一种快速发展的基础设施ICT的影响是深远的。同时，很明显，还有许多其他基础技术-纳米技术，生物技术和认知科学-容易产生同样深远且难以预测的影响。而且，每个人都将人类扩展到一个不同的领域：小型，意识和信息领域，以及生物技术本身的生命。根据这些迫在眉睫的技术，这些技术将遍及基础结构设计，构造和使用的许多方面，因此请进行简单的思考实验。想想一个外星人第一次从太空飞船的角度看地球。它给世界带来的最直接和最深刻的印象是什么？首先，它在很大程度上是设计的产物：发射光谱反映了灯光，无线电和电视，通信网络以及城市的热量排放；基本的化学和物理循环受到人类活动的影响；生物圈反映了数百年来的农业，定居，土地利用，以及越来越多的基因组工程。有旷野吗？也许是原始的，但没有一个是原始的，就像佛罗里达大沼泽地，阿尔卑斯山或南极洲一样，它们存在于我们的选举权之内，并日益反映出刻意的选择。世界不是人类的人工产物，而是一个行星，它在最基本的系统动力学中越来越多地反映出一个物种－我们的活动（Turner等，1990； Vitousek等，1997； Allenby，未发表的工作论文，2002）。 ）。

著录项

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱：kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备：11010802029741号 ICP备案号：京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有

  • 客服微信

  • 服务号