Digital's cleaving power and its consequences

Luciano Floridi

pp. 123-129

in: Fabio Paglieri, Chris REED (eds), Online arguments, Philosophy & Technology 30 (2), 2017.

Abstract

The digital is deeply transforming reality. This is much obvious and uncontroversial. The real questions are why, how, and so what. In each case, the answer is far from trivial and definitely open to debate. To explain the ones I find most convincing, let me start in medias res, that is, from the “how”. It will then be easier to move backwards, to understand “why”, and then forward, to deal with the “so what”.