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Technological Development and Well-Being

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Robotics and Well-Being

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The way progress—conducted on the basis of extracting the maximum economic and financial profit—is menacing humanity and the very planet has led to (i) a deeper awareness that all scientific and technological development somehow impact on human physical and social environment (ii) that this development has frequently come with a very high existential cost (iii) that an ethical reflection prior to any effective technological deployment is not only advisable but it is certainly a priority. The complexity of 4IT revolution imposes the adoption of a shift of paradigm from a production-oriented measurement system to one focused on the well-being of the present and future generations.

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    Even in the case of warfare.

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    Cognition is here understood as the capacity of any natural or artificial system to autonomously interact with the environment it is embedded in [6, 7].

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  1. Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira

  2. Instituto Superior Técnico, Institute for Systems and Robotics, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira

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  1. Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira

  2. Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Silva Sequeira

  3. Endoenergy Systems Limited, Cambridge, UK

    Gurvinder Singh Virk

  4. School of Engineering, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Mohammad Osman Tokhi

  5. Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Endre E. Kadar

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Aldinhas Ferreira, M.I. (2019). Technological Development and Well-Being. In: Aldinhas Ferreira, M., Silva Sequeira, J., Singh Virk, G., Tokhi, M., E. Kadar, E. (eds) Robotics and Well-Being. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12524-0_1

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