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Let Them Eat Data - How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability (Hardcover)
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Let Them Eat Data - How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability (Hardcover)
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Do computers foster cultural diversity? Ecological sustainability?
In our age of high-tech euphoria we seem content to leave tough
questions like these to the experts. That dangerous inclination is
at the heart of this important examination of the commercial and
educational trends that have left us so uncritically optimistic
about global computing. Contrary to the attitudes that have been
marketed and taught to us, says C. A. Bowers, the fact is that
computers operate on a set of Western cultural assumptions and a
market economy that drives consumption. Our indoctrination includes
the view of global computing innovations as inevitable and on a par
with social progress--a perspective dismayingly suggestive of the
mindset that engendered the vast cultural and ecological
disruptions of the industrial revolution and world colonialism. In
Let Them Eat Data Bowers discusses important issues that have
fallen into the gap between our perceptions and the realities of
global computing, including the misuse of the theory of evolution
to justify and legitimate the global spread of computers, and the
ecological and cultural implications of unmooring knowledge from
its local contexts as it is digitized, commodified, and packaged
for global consumption. He also suggests ways that educators can
help us think more critically about technology. Let Them Eat Data
is essential reading if we are to begin democratizing technological
decisions, conserving true cultural diversity and intergenerational
forms of knowledge, and living within the limits and possibilities
of the earth's natural systems.
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