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Bob Hughes

The Bleeding Edge

Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World

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It's hammered 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 Bleeding Edge, Bob Hughes argues that unequal societies… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-77113-291-6
  • EAN: 9781771132916
  • Produktnummer: 37409683
  • Verlag: Between the Lines
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 368 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'725 KB

Über den Autor


Bob Hughes is an academic, activist, and author, and has taught electronic media at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Dust or Magic, a book for digital multimedia workers, about how people do good stuff with computers. He is a member of No One is Illegal.

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