Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780198717058ISBN-10:198717059UPC:9780198717058Book Category:Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.60 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCSPFB5Y9T
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...
accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780198717058ISBN-10:198717059UPC:9780198717058Book Category:Social Science, ScienceBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.60 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCSPFB5Y9T
Nicholas Agar, Reader Victoria University of Wellington Nicholas Agar is Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University. He has spent much of his academic career writing about ethical and philosophical issues that arise in connection with new technologies.
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