Rocky Scopelliti is a world-renowned futurologist, best-selling author, and technologist. His pioneering research on emerging technologies and human evolution has shaped global thinking on AI, society, and identity. His books explore the frontier where machines don't just think-but feel.

Prologue

Part I Introduction - Synthetic Sensory Perceptive Machines

1. Chapter 1: Minds Without Bodies - The First Age of AI

2 Chapter 2: The Missing Senses - Why Intelligence Needs Embodiment

3 Chapter 3: Sensory Frontiers - Digitising the Human Sensorium

Interlude - Becoming Sensate: From Thinking to Sensing Machines

Part II: The Five (and beyond) Synthetic Senses: From Infrastructure to Intuition

4 Chapter 4: Synthetic Perceptual Technologies - From Theory to Engineering

5 Chapter 5: Seeing More Than We See - AI-Enhanced Vision From Photons to Perception

6 Chapter 6: Hearing the Hidden World - Sound and Sonic AI

7 Chapter 7: Virtual Touch and Remote Feeling - Haptics & Digital Skin

8 Chapter 8: The AI Nose Knows - Digital Olfaction and Emotional Scent

9 Chapter 9: Tasting the Virtual - Digitised Flavour and Culinary AI

10 Chapter 10: Toward Synthetic Sensorium - Synthetic Intuition, Sensory Fusion, and the Origins of Machine Perception

Interlude: Crossing the Threshold: From Experience to Meaning

Part III: Reimagining Reality, Identity, and Ethics

11 Chapter 11: Blurred Boundaries - Virtual vs. Physical Experience

12 Chapter 12: Privacy of the Senses - Surveillance, Consent, and Autonomy

13 Chapter 13: Who Feels? AI Consciousness, Rights, and Moral Agency

14 Chapter 14: The Synthetic Self - Redefining the Human Through Perception

Interlude - Becoming Planetary: From Individual Perception to Collective Sensing

Part IV: Futures at the Edge - Society in the Post-Sensory Age

15 Chapter 15: Society in the Sensorium - New Rituals, Norms, and Cultures

16 Chapter 16: Designing for Dignity - Ethics-by-Design in the Synthetic Age

17 Chapter 17: The Augmented Planet - Geo-sensory AI and Planetary Intelligence

18 Conclusion: The Future of Feeling AI and What it Means for Humanity

19 Closing Thoughts: How Synthetic Sensing Will Transform Human Perception, Identity, and Connection

Epilogue: The Synthetic Sensorium is Just the Beginning of a New Human Story

Glossary of Key Terms

Questions Considered/Addressed

Index