Innovation and Its Enemies
Subtitle: Why People Resist New Technologies
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780190467036
Subjects: Technological innovations; Technology and civilization; Technology, social aspects
Description: New technologies may be heralded as life-changing innovations or feared as risks to moral values, human health, and environmental safety. Anxieties surrounding technology are often heightened by perceptions that their benefits will accrue to small sections of society while the risks are more widely distributed. Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order and stability as one of today's biggest policy challenges.