| Abstract： |
The rapid development of digital technologies, AI in particular, has been actualizing the vision of modern philosophy in an unexpected way. But the digitalized future seems to be putting the people into a condition of powerlessness, exposedness, and uselessness in which their mastery of social life and internal autonomy are impaired, their individual lives thoroughly exposed and the openness for the growth of their uniqueness closed, and the opportunities for their productive contributions and the relevant social dignity deprived. Given the significance and necessity of technological progress, public practices on various levels are reliable human capabilities for us to relieve our powerlessness and exposedness. But the plight of uselessness seems to be unavoidable if only a different social-ethical imaginary can be reshaped without the domination of market values grounded in the conceptions of utility and productive contribution. |
