{"product_id":"nihilism-and-technology-9781538193273","title":"Nihilism and Technology","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtificial intelligence. Robot workers. Commercial space travel. These are no longer ideas of science fiction. They are increasingly the headlines in the daily news. From Hollywood to higher education, everyone is racing to figure out how to exploit these new technologies and use them to solve all our problems--especially problems related to another subject dominating headlines: the climate change crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven the existential threat of environmental disaster, we now look to the technologies we once thought impossible to do the impossible, to save us from climate change. Of course, looking to superhuman beings to save us from ourselves is nothing new. This is why turning to Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of nihilism can help us to understand our current predicament, to understand the danger of trying to escape from reality by embracing technological fantasies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis updated edition expands the investigation into the relationship between nihilism and technology to include new topics like why AI doesn't exist, why ChatGPT shouldn't exist, and why climate change can't be solved by nihilism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNolen Gertz\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of applied philosophy at the University of Twente, and a senior researcher at the 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e The Philosophy of War and Exile \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNihilism\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForbes, \u003c\/i\u003eand on \u003ci\u003eABC Australia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298408005906,"sku":"9781538193273","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_901f4957-e46a-426e-afd6-bd20149b7cd0.jpg?v=1747819250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nihilism-and-technology-9781538193273","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}