The sceptical optimist : why technology isn't the answer to everything /

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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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agar, Nicholas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Technology > Psychological aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Technology > Philosophy.
Technologie > Aspect psychologique.
Technologie > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Technology > Philosophy
Technology > Psychological aspects
Technology > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Radical optimism and the technology bias
  • Does technological progress increase subjective well-being?
  • Radically optimistic forecasts
  • How should we prioritize technological progress?
  • 2. Is there a law of technological progress?
  • Moore's Law, Kryder's Law, and exponential technological improvement
  • Exponential technological improvement as a conditional law
  • Kurzweil's evolutionary explanation of exponential technological progress
  • Difference between reflexive and passive improvement
  • 3. Does technological progress make us happier?
  • Traditional paradox of progress
  • Hedonic adaptation
  • 4. The new paradox of progress
  • Gibbon versus Ridley on historical happiness
  • Attitudinal time travel
  • Hedonic normalization
  • 5. We need technological progress experiments
  • Technological progress traps
  • Jared Diamond on the natural experiments of traditional societies
  • A nuclear power progress experiment
  • Progress experiment on genetically modified crops
  • 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
  • Economic and technological trickledown
  • 7. Choosing a tempo of technological progress
  • Different tempos of progress
  • Marginal contributions to well-being
  • Mobile phones and cancer therapies
  • Importance of subjectively positive technological progress
  • Afterword : don't turn well-being technologies into Procrustean beds.

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