Life Engineering

Electronic Markets, 2020

DOI: 10.1007/s12525-019-00388-1

Posted: 28 May 2020

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Hubert Österle

University of St. Gallen - SoM: School of Management

Date Written: November 29, 2019

Abstract

This paper is a call for a discipline Life Engineering. For more than fifty years, Business Engineering (initially referred to as systems analysis) has been concerned with the use of information technology for the benefit of companies and other organizations, for example through electronic markets. In the past twenty years, machine intelligence has increasingly changed human life, while science offers little help in controlling change for the good of mankind.

Keywords: Life Engineering, Machine Intelligence, Digital Services, Quality of Life, Happiness, Ethics, Evolution, Personal Data, Hedonia, Eudaimonia, Consumer Protection

Suggested Citation

Österle, Hubert, Life Engineering (November 29, 2019). Electronic Markets, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s12525-019-00388-1, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3589113

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