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Author Petersén, Moa, author

Title The Swedish microchipping phenomenon / Moa Petersén
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 96 pages)
Series Emerald points
Emerald points.
Contents Chapter01: When the Chips Came to Sweden; The Basement; The Struggle within Swedish Biohacking; Media Coverage and the Chips as Business; Chapter 02: Sweden and Technology; Unicorns and Swedish Values; The Wild West and Trust; Agility and Speed; Chapter 03: Chipped Swedes; Who Chips Themself?; Surveillance and the Ideas on a Future for Human Chip Implants; Science Fiction as Reality and Biological BodiesTranshumanism (H+); Concluding Discussion; References; Index
Summary This book maps the discourse around the Swedish phenomenon of microchipping humans. With help from a theory cluster of different theories on human-technology relationships, the author explains different perspectives present within the discourse
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2019)
Subject Electronic surveillance -- Sweden
Integrated circuits.
Microprocessors.
Privacy, Right of -- Sweden
Technology -- Social aspects -- Sweden
Microprocessors.
Technology & Engineering, Electronics, Microelectronics.
Electronic surveillance
Integrated circuits
Microprocessors
Privacy, Right of
Technology -- Social aspects
Sweden
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019301810
ISBN 9781789733570
178973357X
9781789733556
1789733553