The bleeding edge
Subtitle: why technology turns toxic in an unequal world
By: Bob Hughes.
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781780263298
Description: 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 to better worlds, and still can.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Danny Dorling; title: Introduction; title: Technofatalism and the future; title: is a world without Foxconn even possible?; title: From water mills to iPhones : why technology and inquality do not mix; title: What inquality does to people; title: The environmental cost of human inequality; title: Ever greater impact, ever less benefit : high-tech capital's mysterious lack of growth; title: The invisible foot : why inequality increases impact; title: Enclosure in the computer age : the magic of control; title: Sales effort : from the automobile to the microchip; title: Technoptimism hits the buffers; title: The data explosion : how the cloud became a juggernaut; title: 'The least efficient machine humans have ever built' : how capitalism drove the computer down a dead end; title: Planning by whom and for what? The battle for control from the Soviet Union to Walmart; title: A socialist computer : Chile, 1970-1973; title: Utopia or bust.