Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

to cold technology. for some features of human drivers have to come alongand stay on board, or else they have to come from the center. We won'tkeep the humans' physical presence, their caps, their uniforms, or theiroutspokenness; but we'll keep some of their knowledge, their abilities, theirknowhow. Cold qualities? No, on the contrary, warm and controversial,like subordination and control, authorizations and orders. Because theautomatic pilot is demanding as well-not about retirement and SocialSecurity, but about distance sensors, orders, and counterorders, if wedecide to put it on board; about transmission, road markers, information,and speed, if we set it up at the command center. When our engineerscross the qualities of drivers with the qualities of automatic pilots and centralcomputers, they're embarking on the definition of a character. An autonomousbeing or an omniscient system? What minimum number of humanqualities does that character have to bring along? What characteristicshave to be delegated to it? What sensations does it have to be capable ofexperiencing? Yes, we're actually dealing with metaphysics, and the anthropomorphicexpressions must be taken not figuratively but literally: itreally is a matter of defining the human (anthropos) form (morphos) of anonhuman, and deciding on the limits to its freedom.[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS]M. Berger, reading the above document aloud: "Ah, that's what I waslooking for: 'Aramis is an automated transportation system that includes amaximum number of onboard controls; as a result, transmissions have been cutdown to a minimum. The vehicles have been made completely automatic, andthe calculator addresses all the vehicles present on a functional transmissionsegment' ip 24). Yes, I have to admit that our discussions sometimes took ontheological dimensions.""There, Father, you can see in the ground controls a precise modelof God's relations with his creatures. ""But isn't it rather impious, my son, to represent God as the constantrepairer of his creatures ' mistakes? The world you propose ishardly perfect, since, according to you, the Supreme Intelligence hasIS A R A MIS FEA SIBlE?