TY - BOOK AU - Townsend, Peter TI - The Dark Side of Technology SN - 9780198826293 U1 - 303.483 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Technological innovations - Social aspects N1 - 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 ER -