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The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
Bob Hughes
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Description for The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
Paperback. Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better worlds, and still can. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPVH; PDR; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 482.
It's dinned into us from birth that 'all good things come at a price'. Today, that price looks apocalyptic, with wars, exploitation and environmental collapse in every part of the globe. Some suggest that the carnage is a price worth paying for technological progress. No pain, no gain. But technology is precisely the business of minimising the costs and impacts of existence...and by whole orders of magnitude. By now, all human beings should be leading creative, leisure-filled lives in a pristine world of burgeoning diversity. So how did it go so wrong? In a word, inequality. In The ... Read more
It's dinned into us from birth that 'all good things come at a price'. Today, that price looks apocalyptic, with wars, exploitation and environmental collapse in every part of the globe. Some suggest that the carnage is a price worth paying for technological progress. No pain, no gain. But technology is precisely the business of minimising the costs and impacts of existence...and by whole orders of magnitude. By now, all human beings should be leading creative, leisure-filled lives in a pristine world of burgeoning diversity. So how did it go so wrong? In a word, inequality. In The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780263298
SKU
V9781780263298
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99-15
About Bob Hughes
Bob Hughes worked as a school teacher, calligrapher, and in advertising before getting involved with computers in the mid-1980s, working on interactive information systems, running an interest group, and writing about the new industry's unofficial history and creative traditions. Later, he became involved in campaigning for the rights of migrants, on whose labour the digital economy is built, and was ... Read more
Reviews for The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
'The Bleeding Edge is truly the leading edge of books that challenge us to rethink the relationship between technology, capitalism and inequality. Rejecting both apocalyptic pessimism and techno-optimism, Hughes provides a compelling map to the future in which information technologies are harnessed for the common good. Powerfully argued and easy to read, this is one of those books that can ... Read more