Great Reversal - How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet

Informationen zum Autor David Edward Tabachnick Foreword by Darin Barney Klappentext As the rise of technology threatens our very humanity, Tabachnick emphasizes that we still may have time to recover and develop these capacities – but we must first decide how far we want to allow technology to determine our existence and our future. Zusammenfassung As the rise of technology threatens our very humanity, Tabachnick emphasizes that we still may have time to recover and develop these capacities - but we must first decide how far we want to allow technology to determine our existence and our future. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Darin Barney Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Finding and Enforcing Limits A Brief Note on the Historical Review 2 Phronesis vs. Techne 3 The Decline of Good Judgment 4 The Rise of Technical Knowledge 5 After the Great Reversal 6 Responses to the Great Reversal 7 Virtue in a Technological Age Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Not Available (NA), TABACHNICK, David Tabachnick, David E. Tabachnick, David Edward Tabachnick
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2013
• EAN: 9780802094698
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9469-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous