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The dark side of technology
- Title
- The dark side of technology / Peter Townsend.
- Author
- Townsend, P. D. (Peter David)
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- ©2016.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 306 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Technological progress comes with a Dark Side where good ideas and intentions produce undesirable results. The many and various unexpected outcomes of technology span humorous to bizarre, and even result in situations which threaten our survival. Development can be positive for some, but negative and isolating for others (e.g. older or poorer people). Progress is often transient, as faster electronics and computers dramatically shorten retention time of data and knowledge (e.g. documents, data, and photos will be unreadable within a generation). This is also destroying past languages and cultures in a trend to globalisation. Advances cut across all areas of science and life, and the scope is vast from biology, medicine, agriculture, transport, electronics, computers, long range communications, to a global economy.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306).
- Contents
- Have we the knowledge, willpower, and determination to survive? -- Technology and survival: are they compatible? -- Natural disasters and civilization -- Good technologies with bad side effects -- From trains to transistors -- Food, survival, and resources -- The 'Silent Spring' revisited -- Medicine: expectations and reality -- Knowledge loss from changing language -- Decay of materials and information loss from technology -- Technology, the new frontier fro crime and terror -- Technology-driven social isolation -- Consumerism and obsolescence -- Rejection of knowledge and information -- Hindsight, foresight, radical suggestions and a gain of hope.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-2523
- ISBN
- 9780198790532
- 0198790538
- LCCN
- 2016939460
- OCLC
- 968796813
- Author
- Townsend, P. D. (Peter David), author.
- Title
- The dark side of technology / Peter Townsend.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-2523