Technology permeates our living environments, our body and our selves. We seem to meld with our smartphones, spend time in virtual worlds, or are able to optimize our bodies through high-tech implants. Will our everyday life of tomorrow be shaped by intelligent houses, thinking machines and social robots? The articles in this interdisciplinary anthology open up the spectrum of a technologized lifeworld: between the increase in autonomy and the loss of personal freedom, between reality and science fiction, between human and technology.
