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200 14$aThe dark side of technology /$fPeter Townsend
205   $aFirst edition.
210  1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aHave we the knowledge, willpower, and determination to survive? -- Technology and survival: are they compatible? -- Natural disasters and civilization -- Good technologies with bad side effects -- From trains to transistors -- Food, survival, and resources -- The 'Silent Spring' revisited -- Medicine: expectations and reality -- Knowledge loss from changing language -- Decay of materials and information loss from technology -- Technology, the new frontier for crime and terror -- Technology-driven social isolation -- Consumerism and obsolescence -- Rejection of knowledge and information -- Hindsight, foresight, radical suggestions, and a grain of hope.
330 8 $aThe work is concerned with human progress and the unexpected consequences of technological advances. It examines a vast range of topics from medicine to agriculture, including electronics, communications, a global economy and a burgeoning population.
606   $aTechnology$xSocial aspects
615  0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects.
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