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Könyv Sceptical Optimist Agar Nicholas

Sceptical Optimist

Why technology isn't the answer to everything

Szerző: Agar Nicholas
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Oxford University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 9-15 napon belül
11 002 Ft
The rapid developments in technologies - especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices...

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Szerző
Agar Nicholas
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2015
oldal
222
EAN
9780198717058
ISBN
0198717059
Enbook ID
04528383
Kiadó
Oxford University Press
Súly
388
Méretek
223 x 145 x 24

Teljes leírás

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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