The Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn'T The Answer To Everything

Radical optimism and the technology bias -- Is there a law of technological progress? -- Does technological progress make us happier? -- The new paradox of progress -- We need technological progress experiments -- Why technological progress won't end poverty -- Choosing a tempo of technological progress -- Afterword : don't turn well-being technologies in Procrustean beds.

• | Author: Nicholas Agar
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0198717059
• | ISBN-13: 9780198717058