The Metaverse: A Critical Assessment
暫譯: 元宇宙：批判性評估

Brey, Philip

The Metaverse: A Critical Assessment
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-06-12
  • 售價: $1,840
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,748
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 133
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031934709
  • ISBN-13: 9783031934704

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商品描述

This book offers an extensive assessment of the nature and feasibility of the metaverse and is the first to critically examine its social and ethical implications. The metaverse is, in essence, an envisioned future merger of virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) and the internet, enabling real-time immersive interaction and activities like work, play, socializing, and entertainment. Major tech companies like Meta, Microsoft, Apple and NVIDIA have been investing billions in metaverse technologies, with generative AI accelerating progress. This book examines how these efforts could culminate in the metaverse, exploring its potential forms, implications, and the social and ethical challenges it may pose--along with recommendations for responsible innovation. The book is aimed at stakeholders shaping the metaverse--developers, creators, investors, business leaders, and thought leaders in technologies like VR, AR, Web3, blockchain, and AI. It also serves scholars and students in applied ethics, the social sciences, and the humanities, including fields such as media studies, psychology, and law. General readers interested in the metaverse and emerging technologies will find it both accessible and engaging.

Philip Brey is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is the former president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) and the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT).

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書對於元宇宙的本質和可行性進行了廣泛的評估，並首次批判性地探討其社會和倫理影響。元宇宙本質上是虛擬現實（VR）和擴增實境（AR）與互聯網的未來合併，實現即時沉浸式互動和活動，如工作、娛樂、社交和休閒。主要科技公司如Meta、Microsoft、Apple和NVIDIA已在元宇宙技術上投資數十億美元，生成式人工智慧（generative AI）則加速了這一進程。本書探討這些努力如何最終形成元宇宙，探索其潛在形式、影響以及可能帶來的社會和倫理挑戰，並提供負責任創新的建議。本書的目標讀者是塑造元宇宙的利益相關者，包括開發者、創作者、投資者、商業領袖以及在虛擬現實、擴增實境、Web3、區塊鏈和人工智慧等技術領域的思想領袖。它同時也適合應用倫理學、社會科學和人文學科的學者和學生，包括媒體研究、心理學和法律等領域。對元宇宙和新興技術感興趣的一般讀者將會覺得本書既易於理解又引人入勝。

Philip Brey是荷蘭特溫特大學哲學系的科技哲學與倫理教授。他曾擔任哲學與科技學會（SPT）和國際倫理與資訊科技學會（INSEIT）的會長。

作者簡介

Philip Brey is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands. In his research, he investigates social, political and ethical issues in emerging technologies. His main focus is on artificial intelligence, extended reality, and other digital technologies. He was one of the first scholars to discuss the ethical implications of virtual reality. Brey is former president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). He has co-edited books on modernity and technology (MIT Press), well-being and technology (Routledge, Springer) and responsible innovation (Science Press, China). He is winner of the 2022 Weizenbaum Award for excellence in the field of digital ethics. He currently leads the ten-year research programme Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT), with over a hundred researchers and a budget of 27 million.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

菲利普·布雷（Philip Brey）是荷蘭特溫特大學（University of Twente）哲學系的科技哲學與倫理學教授。在他的研究中，他探討新興技術中的社會、政治和倫理問題。他的主要焦點是人工智慧（artificial intelligence）、擴增實境（extended reality）及其他數位技術。他是最早討論虛擬實境（virtual reality）倫理影響的學者之一。布雷曾擔任國際資訊科技倫理學會（International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, INSEIT）及哲學與科技學會（Society for Philosophy and Technology, SPT）的會長。他共同編輯過有關現代性與科技（MIT Press）、福祉與科技（Routledge, Springer）以及負責任創新（Science Press, China）的書籍。他是2022年魏岑鮑姆獎（Weizenbaum Award）數位倫理領域卓越獎的得主。目前，他領導為期十年的社會顛覆性技術倫理研究計畫（Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies, ESDiT），該計畫擁有超過一百名研究人員及2700萬的預算。

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