Futile Progress : Technology's empty promise

ISBN-13: 9781849710008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 228 str.

Ernest Braun

Opis

Do new innovations and products improve our lives? Has our relentless pursuit of technological progress eliminated the blight of poverty, of inequality, of discrimination, of crime, of war? This book explores the multiple and far-reaching ways in which our society and our environment have been affected by technological change.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Aims of Progress  2. Technological Innovation Causes  3. Technology Policy  4. Technology and the Natural Environment  5. Environmental Policies  6. Summary and Conclusions

O autorze

Ernest Braun was formerly the Head of the Technology Policy Unit and Professor of Physics at Aston University. He spent years in Vienna as Head of the Technology Assessment Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is now an Emeritus Professor at Aston, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Technology Strategy at the Open University. Originally published in 1995.