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The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything /
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...
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New York, New York :
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2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a COVER -- THE SCEPTICAL OPTIMIST: WHY TECHNOLOGY ISN'T THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- INTRODUCTION -- An outline of the book -- 1: RADICAL OPTIMISM AND THE TECHNOLOGY BIAS -- Does technological progress increase subjective well-being? -- Radically optimistic forecasts -- How should we prioritize technological progress? -- Concluding comments -- 2: IS THERE A LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS? -- Moore's Law, Kryder's Law, and exponential technological improvement -- Two questions about exponential technological progress -- Exponential technological improvement as a conditional law -- What went wrong with cancer? -- Kurzweil's evolutionary explanation of exponential technological progress -- The difference between reflexive and passive improvement -- Exponential technological improvement is infectious -- Concluding comments -- 3: DOES TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS MAKE US HAPPIER? -- The traditional paradox of progress -- How we hedonically adapt to new well-being technologies -- Complete or incomplete hedonic adaptation? -- Concluding comments -- 4: THE NEW PARADOX OF PROGRESS -- Gibbon versus Ridley on historical happiness -- The perils of attitudinal time travel -- Hedonic normalization -- How to make comparisons that best reveal the effects of technological progress -- Complete or incomplete hedonic normalization -- Why hedonic normalization is probably incomplete -- The new paradox of technological progress -- Concluding comments -- 5: WE NEED TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS EXPERIMENTS -- Technological progress traps -- Two ideals of technological progress -- The fear of falling behind -- How is progress dangerous? -- Rehabilitating the idea of technology experiments -- Jared Diamond on the natural experiments of traditional societies. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Creating and nurturing variation in technological progress -- A nuclear power progress experiment -- Why should the winners share with the losers? -- A progress experiment on genetically modified crops -- The future of technological progress -- Concluding comments -- 6: WHY TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WON'T END POVERTY -- Poverty and well-being -- Ordinary and emergency circumstances of poverty -- Radically optimistic solutions to poverty -- Were there poor people in the Pleistocene? -- How poverty affects life satisfaction -- Misunderstanding the happiness of the Sun King -- Evidence from status competitions for the relevance of social context -- Economic and technological trickledown -- Concluding comments -- 7: CHOOSING A TEMPO OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS -- Comparing different tempos of progress -- Technological progress makes diminishing marginal contributions to well-being -- Mobile phones and cancer therapies -- The importance of subjectively positive technological progress -- Concluding comments -- AFTERWORD: Don't turn well-being technologies into Procrustean beds -- ENDNOTES -- INDEX -- ADVERTS. | |
| 520 | |a 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 willautomatically 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 intechnological 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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