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| Category: | General - Books | By: | O'Reilly |
| More info: | www.oreilly.com | Info-file: | big_front_Devicesoft... |
| Author(s): | Steve Talbott | Pages: | 281 |
| Year of publication: | 2007 | ||
Digital technology certainly makes us more efficient. But when efficiency is the only goal, we have no way to know whether we're going in the right or wrong direction. Businesses replace guiding vision with a spreadsheet's bottom line. Schoolteachers are replaced by the computer's dataflow. Indigenous peoples give up traditional skills for the dazzle and ease of new gadgets. Even the Pentagon's zeal to replace 'boots on the ground' with technology has led to the mess in Iraq. And on it » Read more... |  |
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Digital technology certainly makes us more efficient. But when efficiency is the only goal, we have no way to know whether we're going in the right or wrong direction. Businesses replace guiding vision with a spreadsheet's bottom line. Schoolteachers are replaced by the computer's dataflow. Indigenous peoples give up traditional skills for the dazzle and ease of new gadgets. Even the Pentagon's zeal to replace 'boots on the ground' with technology has led to the mess in Iraq. And on it goes.The ultimate danger is that, in our willingness to adapt ourselves to technology, 'we will descend to the level of the computational devices we have engineered--not merely imagining ever new and more sophisticated automatons, but reducing ourselves to automatons.'To transform our situation, we need to see it in a new & unaccustomed light, and that's what Talbott provides by examining the deceiving virtues of technology - how we're killing education, socializing our machines, and mechanizing our society. Once you take this eye-opening journey, you will think more clearly about how you consume technology and how you allow it to consume you.