We Are the Borg! Human Assimilation into Cellular Society

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Author(s): Ronnie D. Lipschutz (University of California - Santa Cruz, USA)and Rebecca J. Hester (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 42
Source title: Uberveillance and the Social Implications of Microchip Implants: Emerging Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): M.G. Michael (University of Wollongong, Australia)and Katina Michael (University of Wollongong, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4582-0.ch016

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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As cybersurveillance, datamining, and social networking for security, transparency, and commercial purposes become more ubiquitous, individuals who use and rely on various forms of electronic communications are being absorbed into a new type of cellular society. The eventual end of this project might be a world in which each individual, each cell in the electronic “body politic,” can be monitored, managed, and, if dangerous to the social organism, eliminated. This chapter examines the objectives, desires, and designs associated with such a cellular biopolitics. Are individuals being incorporated into a Borg-like cyber-organism in which they no longer “own” their substance, preferences, desires, and thoughts and in which they are told what they should be doing next?

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