David J. Gunkel - Author of "Gaming the System" & "Robot Rights".
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
David J. Gunkel (PhD) is an award-winning educator, scholar and author, specializing in the study of information and communication technology with a focus on ethics. Formally educated in philosophy and media studies, his teaching and research synthesize the hype of high-technology with the rigor and insight of contemporary critical analysis.
He is the author of over 50 scholarly journal articles and book chapters, has written and published 7 influential books, lectured and delivered award-winning papers throughout North and South America and Europe, is the managing editor and co-founder of the International Journal of Žižek Studies and co-editor of the Indiana University Press series in Digital Game Studies.
He currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA), and his teaching has been recognized with numerous awards, including NIU's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the prestigious Presidential Teaching Professor.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies |
| 0:08.0 | Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these |
| 0:14.8 | technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner. |
| 0:18.9 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host, Juliet Lamar, and joining us today is David J. Gunkel. He is the author of many books. |
| 0:36.0 | So the two that we're talking about today are gaming the system and robot rights. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm so excited. Welcome David to the program. |
| 0:44.4 | Thanks, thanks for having me. |
| 0:45.7 | So let's get started with, you know, how did you come to be a writer in this state? |
| 0:51.2 | You write a lot about technology, So give us a little insight into |
| 0:54.1 | into yourself. Yeah, sure. So I have a PhD in philosophy and when I was finishing my philosophy |
| 1:00.3 | PhD, which was actually in the work of Hegel, a 19th century German philosopher. |
| 1:05.0 | It dawned on me that jobs for Hegel scholars were far into between and that I needed to somehow |
| 1:10.9 | have a hook for what I do that could sort of scale to the changes in culture, society, |
| 1:18.1 | technology, etc. |
| 1:19.3 | And I just started at that time working on web development and I had been sort of |
| 1:24.8 | of the bad habit of going to school by developing web pages and so at the time I |
| 1:30.8 | graduated I realized it was this opening for thinkers who could address the social, moral, legal questions having to do with this new thing called the Internet and then after that robots and AI and all kinds of other |
| 1:44.5 | things like algorithms as our will get more technologically immeshed with these |
| 1:48.9 | devices. |
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