Sceptical Optimist: Why Technology Isn't the Answer to Everything

by Nicholas Agar

Book Overview

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that
accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198717059
• ISBN13: 9780198717058
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"