Attitudes towards emerging technologies

Chapter 4 offers an account of the lessons drawn from a survey of attitudes towards emerging technologies. Broadly, it is clear from this survey that a substantial majority of participants will adopt increasingly intrusive technologies – make themselves subject to technological regimes of practice – so long as assurances are given that these technologies would address their existential concerns, and that they will do so typically without regard for issues of self-responsibility. In addition, participants generally regarded emerging technologies as likely to allow such concerns to be dealt with more effectively than by Deity, State and Market. This, along with the emergence of evidence for an Absolute Subject, is taken as a robust affirmation of the principal arguments put in this work.