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Informationen zum Autor Robert Rattle is an independent consultant working for NGOs, business and governmental organizations. For the last two decades, Rattle has conducted research and provided consulting services in the areas of sustainable development and sustainable consumption; ecosystems and human health; ecological economics; impact assessment; information and telecommunications policy; Aboriginal well-being; and globalization. Klappentext Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected network of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain. Zusammenfassung Computing Our Way to Paradise? challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies in globalization processes. While globalization is predicated upon a strong! extensive! and interconnected network of products! processes! and services! the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Foreword: Global Social Narcosis at the Speed of Light: How the Internet and Communications Technologies are gobbling resources, eradicating cultures, and destroying the planet, and what can be done to stop the runaway train Chapter 2 Chapter 1. ICTs and Globalization: Asking Important Questions Chapter 3 Chapter 2. The Poverty of Affluence: Sustainable Consumption and Global Environmental Change Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Virtual Morality: Globalization, ICTs, and Sustainable Consumption Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Lulled to Complacency: ICTs and Energy and Materials Consumption Chapter 6 Chapter 5. The Efficiency Paradox: Intensity and Consumption Chapter 7 Chapter 6. From Social Meanings to Global Conformity: ICTs and the Global Commons Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Pathological Tendencies: The Health Link Chapter 9 Chapter 8. Incantations and ICTs: A Global Ideological Pervasion Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Redefining Reality, Transforming Values Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Global Transformations: Serious Considerations and Promising Opportunities...
