LEADER 05283nam 2200637 450 001 9910815205203321 005 20230126212916.0 010 $a0-19-102662-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000413149 035 $a(EBL)2095047 035 $a(OCoLC)912319299 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001539957 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11870230 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001539957 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11533456 035 $a(PQKB)10989058 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2095047 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2095047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11055010 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL784896 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000413149 100 $a20150527h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe sceptical optimist $ewhy technology isn't the answer to everything /$fNicholas Agar 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-102661-1 311 $a0-19-871705-9 327 $a""COVER""; ""THE SCEPTICAL OPTIMIST: WHY TECHNOLOGY ISN'T THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""DEDICATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""An outline of the book""; ""1: RADICAL OPTIMISM AND THE TECHNOLOGY BIAS""; ""Does technological progress increase subjective well-being?""; ""Radically optimistic forecasts""; ""How should we prioritize technological progress?""; ""Concluding comments""; ""2: IS THERE A LAW OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS?""; ""Moorea???s Law, Krydera???s Law, and exponential technological improvement"" 327 $a""Two questions about exponential technological progress""""Exponential technological improvement as a conditional law""; ""What went wrong with cancer?""; ""Kurzweila???s evolutionary explanation of exponential technological progress""; ""The difference between reflexive and passive improvement""; ""Exponential technological improvement is infectious""; ""Concluding comments""; ""3: DOES TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS MAKE US HAPPIER?""; ""The traditional paradox of progress""; ""How we hedonically adapt to new well-being technologies""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic adaptation?"" 327 $a""Concluding comments""""4: THE NEW PARADOX OF PROGRESS""; ""Gibbon versus Ridley on historical happiness""; ""The perils of attitudinal time travel""; ""Hedonic normalization""; ""How to make comparisons that best reveal the effects of technological progress""; ""Complete or incomplete hedonic normalization""; ""Why hedonic normalization is probably incomplete""; ""The new paradox of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""5: WE NEED TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS EXPERIMENTS""; ""Technological progress traps""; ""Two ideals of technological progress""; ""The fear of falling behind"" 327 $a""How is progress dangerous?""""Rehabilitating the idea of technology experiments""; ""Jared Diamond on the natural experiments of traditional societies""; ""Creating and nurturing variation in technological progress""; ""A nuclear power progress experiment""; ""Why should the winners share with the losers?""; ""A progress experiment on genetically modified crops""; ""The future of technological progress""; ""Concluding comments""; ""6: WHY TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS WONa???T END POVERTY""; ""Poverty and well-being""; ""Ordinary and emergency circumstances of poverty"" 327 $a""Radically optimistic solutions to poverty""""Were there poor people in the Pleistocene?""; ""How poverty affects life satisfaction""; ""Misunderstanding the happiness of the Sun King""; ""Evidence from status competitions for the relevance of social context""; ""Economic and technological trickledown""; ""Concluding comments""; ""7: CHOOSING A TEMPO OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS""; ""Comparing different tempos of progress""; ""Technological progress makes diminishing marginal contributions to well-being""; ""Mobile phones and cancer therapies"" 327 $a""The importance of subjectively positive technological progress"" 330 $aThe rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress willautomatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism 'assigns to technological progress an 606 $aTechnology$xPsychological aspects 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects 606 $aTechnology$xPhilosophy 615 0$aTechnology$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTechnology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a303.483 700 $aAgar$b Nicholas$0615904 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815205203321 996 $aThe sceptical optimist$94086052 997 $aUNINA