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eloquent and well-informed book ... a refreshing corrective to the excesses of technological optimism (Network Review)
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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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- VerlagOxford University Press(UK)
- Erscheinungsdatum2015
- ISBN 10 0198717059
- ISBN 13 9780198717058
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten222
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