Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course towards Human Survival

by Phil Rose

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In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a number of contributors from different disciplinary perspectives to analyse technopoly both as a concept and as it is seen and understood in contemporary society. Contributors present both analysis of and strategies for managing techno-social conflict, and they also open up a number of fruitful new lines of thought around emerging technological, show more social and even psychological forms. show less

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Phil Rose
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Phil Rose is the author of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums and Radiohead and the Global Movement for Change: 'Pragmatism Not Idealism'.

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Nonfiction, Technology
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303.483 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Social change Causes of change Development of science and technology
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T14.5 .C657 — Technology Technology (General)
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