3 edition of The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World found in the catalog.
Published
2016
by New Internationalist
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Written in
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| Number of Pages | 320 |
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| Open Library | OL26374809M |
| ISBN 10 | 1780263295 |
| ISBN 10 | 978-1780263298 |
The Bleeding Edge. Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World. By Bob Hughes. Can technology make a more just world possible? Published October In his new book The Bleeding Edge, Bob Hughes, an activist and former academic, takes a refreshingly critical look at assumptions about technology — the subtitle is “Why technology turns toxic Author: Maija Palmer.
Buy The Bleeding Edge by Bob Hughes from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £Pages: Despite its sub-title ‘Why technology turns toxic in an unequal world’, Bob Hughes’ The Bleeding Edge goes well beyond arguing for more equality. For Hughes, technologies themselves are not neutral, and the social and political context doesn’t (just) dictate their impact, it determines the content of the technologies themselves.
Starting with today's high tech industries, The Bleeding Edge tackles the old conundrum of why it is that new technologies always seem to end up amplifying human impact and suffering, when in. A new book draws from thousands of years of history to show that innovation flourishes in egalitarian settings and is stifled by cut-throat by competition. In The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World, European academic and activist Bob Hughes exposes how inequality significantly diminishes our technological options and.
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Part historical revision, part policy prescription, the book convincingly refutes the fundamental capitalist assumption that. In The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World, European academic and activist Bob Hughes exposes how inequality significantly diminishes our technological options and turns successful inventions into their evil counterparts.
Part historical revision, part policy prescription, the book convincingly refutes the fundamental capitalist. 1 Description; 2 Contents.
1 Technofatalism and the future – is a world without Foxconn even possible?; 2 From water mills to iPhones: why technology and inequality do not mix; 3 What inequality does to people; 4 The environmental cost of human inequality; 5 Ever greater impact, ever less benefit: high-tech capital’s mysterious lack of growth; 6 The.
26 quotes from The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World: ‘Those who have a lot, have a lot to lose; those who have little can ea Author: Bob Hughes.
The Paperback of the The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World by Bob Hughes at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35 or more. Due to COVID, orders may be : Reviews “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.
Get this from a library. The bleeding edge: why technology turns toxic in an unequal world. [Bob Hughes] -- "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.
The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World by Bob Hughes (); 1 edition; First published in ; Subjects: Information technology, Information society, Social aspects, Internet, Capitalism, Equality, Computers, Digital divide, Social aspects of Computers, Social aspects of Information technology; Times: 19th century, 20th century, 21st.
Nancy Lindisfarne writes – We live in a world mad drunk on technology and political Hughes’ new book, The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology turns Toxic in an Unequal World (Oxford: New Internationalist. ) says more about this poisonous combination – its causes, consequences, and possible cures – than anything I have previously read.
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A new book draws from thousands of years of history to show that innovation flourishes in egalitarian settings and is stifled by cut-throat by competition. In The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World, European academic and activist Bob Hughes exposes how inequality significantly diminishes our technological options and turns successful.
The Bleeding Edge deftly exposes the catastrophic impacts of inequality, exploding the myth that technology has brought us ‘the best of all possible worlds.’ Examining the lives of workers at the bleeding edge of our high-tech world, Bob Hughes explains how the ‘escalating human impact on the earth has gone hand in hand with successful encroachments on egalitarian culture.’.
The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World. 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 are /5(15).
Advanced Search. Browse. Bleeding Edge. Why technology turns toxic in an unequal world. Authors: In The Bleeding Edge, Bob Hughes argues that unequal societies are incapable of using new technologies well. Wherever elites exist, self-preservation decrees that they must take control of new technologies to protect and entrench their status, rather than satisfy people.
The Bleeding Edge Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World by Bob Hughes. ebook. Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the bones of the idea that 'another world is possible', using as evidence the technology that capitalism claims as quintessentially its own: the computer in all its forms.
This book shows that great.The Bleeding Edge Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World by Bob Hughes. ebook. which would lead to a richer more sustainable world.
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.The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World by Bob Hughes | EPUB | MB Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad.
