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Sceptical Optimist

Why technology isn't the answer to everything

Autor: Agar Nicholas
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Oxford University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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The rapid developments in technologies - especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices...

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Autor
Agar Nicholas
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2015
Pagini
222
EAN
9780198717058
ISBN
0198717059
Enbook ID
04528383
Editura
Oxford University Press
Greutate
388
Dimensiuni
223 x 145 x 24

Descriere completă

The rapid developments in technologies - especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet - has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism 'assigns to technological progress an undeserved pre-eminence among all the goals pursued by our civilization'. Instead, Agar uses the most recent psychological studies about human perceptions of well-being to create a realistic model of the impact technology will have. Although he accepts that technological advance does produce benefits, he insists that these are significantly less than those proposed by the radical optimists, and aspects of such progress can also pose a threat to values such as social justice and our relationship with nature, while problems such as poverty cannot be understood in technological terms. He concludes by arguing that a more realistic assessment of the benefits that technological advance can bring will allow us to better manage its risks in future.

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