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Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Do new innovations and products improve our lives? Has our relentless pursuit of technological progress eliminated the blight of poverty, of inequality, of discrimination, of crime, of war? Has the advance of technology increased our happiness and led us to fulfillment and social harmony? The ads would have us think so. But not all technological innovation is desirable, and the fastest rate of... Read more
Introduction 1. The Aims of Progress 2. Technological Innovation Causes 3. Technology Policy 4. Technology and the Natural Environment 5. Environmental Policies 6. Summary and Conclusions
Biography
Ernest Braun was formerly the Head of the Technology Policy Unit and Professor of Physics at Aston University. He spent years in Vienna as Head of the Technology Assessment Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is now an Emeritus Professor at Aston, and a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Technology Strategy at the Open University. Originally published in 1995.
