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020			_a9780198790532 _q(hardback)
020			_a0198790538 _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)968796813
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050		4	_aT14.5 _b.T69 2016
050		4	_aT14.5 _b.T69 2016
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100	1		_aTownsend, P. D. _q(Peter David),
245	1	4	_aThe dark side of technology / _cPeter Townsend.
250			_aFirst Edition.
264		1	_aOxford, United Kingdom : _bOxford University Press, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_axi, 306 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 305-306).
505	0		_aHave we the knowledge, willpower, and determination to survive? -- Technology and survival: are they compatible? -- Natural disasters and civilization -- Good technologies with bad side effects -- From trains to transistors -- Food, survival, and resources -- The 'Silent Spring' revisited -- Medicine: expectations and reality -- Knowledge loss from changing language -- Decay of materials and information loss from technology -- Technology, the new frontier fro crime and terror -- Technology-driven social isolation -- Consumerism and obsolescence -- Rejection of knowledge and information -- Hindsight, foresight, radical suggestions and a gain of hope.
520			_aPHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Technological progress comes with a Dark Side where good ideas and intentions produce undesirable results. The many and various unexpected outcomes of technology span humorous to bizarre, and even result in situations which threaten our survival. Development can be positive for some, but negative and isolating for others (e.g. older or poorer people). Progress is often transient, as faster electronics and computers dramatically shorten retention time of data and knowledge (e.g. documents, data, and photos will be unreadable within a generation). This is also destroying past languages and cultures in a trend to globalisation. Advances cut across all areas of science and life, and the scope is vast from biology, medicine, agriculture, transport, electronics, computers, long range communications, to a global economy.
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133180.
650		0	_aTechnology _xSocial aspects. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85133169.
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xSocial aspects. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112654.
650		7	_aTechnological innovations _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01145049.
650		7	_aTechnology and civilization. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01145253.
650		7	_aTechnology _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01145202.
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