Join us for the third and last session of our reading group series. We will read and discuss together Shannon Vallor's Technology and the Virtues. A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting. Sessions will take place online once a month from 3 to 4.30 pm, with Zoom links provided closer to the sessions. This series is supported by the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Session 3

In this third and last session, we will discuss Part 3 (Meeting the Future with Technomoral Wisdom, Or How to Live Well with Emerging Technologies).

About the book

"Emerging technologies are reshaping our habits, practices, institutions, cultures and environments in increasingly rapid, complex and unpredictable ways that create profound risks and opportunities for human flourishing on a global scale. How can our future be protected in such challenging and uncertain conditions? How can we possibly improve the chances that the human family will not only live, but live well, into the 21st century and beyond? [...]

Technology and the Virtues develops a practical framework for seeking that goal by means of the deliberate cultivation of technomoral virtues: specific skills and strengths of character, adapted to the unique challenges of 21st century life, that offer the human family our best chance of learning to live wisely and well with emerging technologies"(from the book's description).

How to participate

The meeting will take place on Zoom. Nearer to the event date, we will send you the meeting ID.

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