Onlife
Onlife (a portmanteau of “online” and “offline”) is a neologism which refer to the experience of living in a world where there is no distinction between being online or offline.
Description[edit]
The term was coined by Luciano Floridi to define the experience that humans live in hyperhistorical societies where “it is no longer sensible to ask whether one may be online or offline”.[1] The neologism explains the merging of the digital into the analogue caused by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), moving from history to hyperhistory. As a matter of fact: “We have seen that we are probably the last generation to experience a clear difference between onlife and online”.[2]
The word was adopted by the project The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition.[3] set up from 2011 to 2013 by the European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology. A group of 15 scholars in anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, law, neuroscience, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology, instigated the Onlife Initiative: Stefana Broadbent, Nicole Dewandre, Charles Ess, Luciano Floridi, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Mireille Hildebrandt, Yiannis Laouris, Claire Lobet-Maris, Sarah Oates, Ugo Pagallo, Judith Simon, May Thorseth, and Peter-Paul Verbeek. The result of the project has been the publication of The Onlife Manifesto, Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era[1]
In Italy, the word become popular after the 2-day event “OnLife - Il futuro visto da vicino”[4] organized by the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, enriched with the participation of Garry Kasparov, Shoshana Zuboff, Uri Levine, Ada Colau, Alessandro Baricco, Luciano Floridi, Lucy Hawking, Leonard Kleinrock, Daniela L. Rus, Peter Wadhams, Kira Radinsky, Bruce Sterling, Roberto Saviano.
The Mangrove Society[edit]
In order to explain the experience, Luciano Floridi used the analogy of The Mangrove Society in public speeches[5] [6] and papers.[7]
[...] I’d like to describe our society as the Mangrove Society. […] The mangroves grow in wonderful weather when the river (of sweet water) meets the sea (of salty water). Now imagine you are there scuba diving, and someone asked you: “Is the water salty or is it sweet?”. The answer is that: “My dear you don’t know where we are. This is the mangrove Society. It’s both sweet and salty. It is brackish water”. So imagine someone asked you today: “Are you online or are you offline?”. [The answer is]: “My dear you have no idea where you are. We’re both”
— Luciano Floridi - TheWebConference 2018, Lyon, France
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Floridi, Luciano (2015). Floridi, Luciano, ed. The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era. Springer. p. 1. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-04093-6. ISBN 978-3-319-04093-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Floridi, Luciano (2010). "Ethics after the Information Revolution". The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Cambridge University Press: 11.
- ↑ "Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition". 4 February 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "OnLife - Il futuro visto da vicino". Retrieved April 7, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "TheWebConference 2018, Lyon, France". Retrieved April 7, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Digitalisation – opportunities and challenges, 15-16 March 2017, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden". Retrieved April 7, 2020. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Floridi, Luciano (2018). "Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital". Philosophy & Technology. Springer. 31: 1–8. doi:10.1007/s13347-018-0303-9.
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