The Dark Side of Technology
Townsend, Peter
The Dark Side of Technology - Oxford Oxford University Press 2016 - 306p
1. Have we the knowledge, willpower, and determination to survive?
2. Technology and survival: are they compatible?
3. Natural disasters and civilization
4. Good technologies with bad side effects
5. From trains to transistors
6. Food, survival, and resources
7. The 'Silent Spring' revisited
8. Medicine: expectations and reality
9. Knowledge loss from changing language
10. Decay of materials and information loss from technology
11. Technology, the new frontier fro crime and terror
12. Technology-driven social isolation
13. Consumerism and obsolescence
14. Rejection of knowledge and information
15. Hindsight, foresight, radical suggestions and a gain of hope.
9780198826293
Technological innovations - Social aspects
303.483 / TOW
The Dark Side of Technology - Oxford Oxford University Press 2016 - 306p
1. Have we the knowledge, willpower, and determination to survive?
2. Technology and survival: are they compatible?
3. Natural disasters and civilization
4. Good technologies with bad side effects
5. From trains to transistors
6. Food, survival, and resources
7. The 'Silent Spring' revisited
8. Medicine: expectations and reality
9. Knowledge loss from changing language
10. Decay of materials and information loss from technology
11. Technology, the new frontier fro crime and terror
12. Technology-driven social isolation
13. Consumerism and obsolescence
14. Rejection of knowledge and information
15. Hindsight, foresight, radical suggestions and a gain of hope.
9780198826293
Technological innovations - Social aspects
303.483 / TOW