BIOLOGICAL AND SEMIOTIC TRENDS IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Anna Sarosiek

DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 14 May 2016

Abstract The aim of this paper is to present biological and semiotical inspirations influencing the work on Artifcial Intelligence. The biological approach was one of the most effective attitudes in the study of Embodied Artifcial Intelligence. Especially the theories of Jacques Loeb and Jakob von Uexküll play [...] Read more.

THE PRACTICE OF SELF IN AN ERA OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Grażyna Osika

DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 14 May 2016

Abstract In collective consciousness two facts seem to be indisputable. Firstly, the appearance of digital communication technology has significantly transformed the environment of humanlife and secondly, we can observe the growing interest in issues of identity which means that the question of who we are becomes [...] Read more.

CROWDFUNDING – ISSUING SHARES FOR COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES

Dariusz T. Dziuba, Małgorzata Pszczółkowska

DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 14 May 2016

Abstract The paper analyses web crowdfunding as an alternative capital raising method. The focus is on one model, namely community shares offers, discussed against the background of the crowdfunding nature, globally generated value and various business models used, with community enterprises – recipients of [...] Read more.

SOCIAL AND NETWORK GAMES AS THE SOURCES OF INCOME ON THE INTERNET

Agnieszka Szewczyk

DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 14 May 2016

Abstract This article focuses on a relatively new problem of deriving income from the design and sale of social games and online games on the Internet. The on-line entertainment industry is characterized by a marked upward trend. The article presents the technical, economic and social considerations. Attention [...] Read more.

JUST NUMBERS. NOTES ABOUT THE NATURE OF A DIGITAL WORLD

Marek Chlebuś

DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract Only digits really exist in the digital world as only matter exists in a material world. In the first one, all physical things are pure abstraction, similarly as all numbers in the second one. Digits are the only substance of the digital worlds. This hi-tech Pythagoreanism leads to very serious consequences [...] Read more.

FROM TCHERNOBYL TO FUKUSHIMA: ON THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY SAFETY

Piotr Stankiewicz

PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SECURITY

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract This article analyses the process of constructing the ‘safety discourse’, which is created by persons and institutions representing the Polish Nuclear Energy Programme. To explain the success of presenting nuclear energy as a safe and clean energy source a discourse analysis has been applied. Using [...] Read more.

FREEDOM AND SECURITY IN CYBERSPACE – A FEW COMMENTS ON THE BASIS OF JURISPRUDENCE

Małgorzata Skórzewska-Amberg

PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF SECURITY

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract A new era was started by global and unfettered access to the Internet, allowing access to virtually unlimited information resources, their rapid exchange and processing. The anonymity of Internet users, threats to privacy and lack of control over illegal content on the network are a growing problem, [...] Read more.

BETWEEN THE GREAT EXTINCTION OF MEGAFAUNA AND GLOBAL WARMING: ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM THE COMPARISON OF TWO DISTANT IN TIME CASES OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

Jarosław Mikołajec

ECOLOGY – FROM IDEA TO PRACTICE

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract The subject of the article concerns philosophical conclusions from a comparison of two distant in time environmental disasters: the extinction of megafauna, which took place in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, and modern global warming. Both processes are examples showing that seemingly small [...] Read more.

THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM AND THE IDEA OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Łukasz Rąb

ECOLOGY – FROM IDEA TO PRACTICE

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 13 May 2016

Abstract The purpose of this article is to show that freedom is the sine qua non of sustainable development, and that it is part of its axiological foundation. According to Leszek Gawor freedom in this context is understood most often as the degree of mastery of nature or expanding the scope of civil liberties [...] Read more.

TECHNOLOGY – VALUES – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Some Reflections on Changing Relations, Meanings and Social Practices)

Lech W. ZACHER

UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY – THEORIES AND INTERPRETATIONS

Publication language: Polish

Journal article

Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016,  Publication date: 12 May 2016

Abstract Narratives concerning technology and values relations requires an in-depth analysis of these two categories and also their contextualization. In social practice technology and values undergo significant changes, often revolutionary. They take systemic forms and they interact with each other. Since the [...] Read more.