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Innovation and Its Enemies - Why People Resist New Technologies (Hardcover)
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Innovation and Its Enemies - Why People Resist New Technologies (Hardcover)
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The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing
debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is
just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology
signal both hope and fear, leading to public controversy. This book
shows that many debates over new technologies are framed in the
context of risks to moral values, human health, and environmental
safety. But it argues that behind these legitimate concerns often
lie deeper, but unacknowledged, socioeconomic considerations.
Technological tensions are often heightened by perceptions that the
benefits of new technologies will accrue only to small sections of
society while the risks will be more widely distributed. Similarly,
innovations that threaten to alter cultural identities tend to
generate intense social concern. As such, societies that exhibit
great economic and political inequities are likely to experience
heightened technological controversies. Drawing from nearly 600
years of technology history, Innovation and Its Enemies identifies
the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to
maintain continuity, social order, and stability as one of today's
biggest policy challenges. It reveals the extent to which modern
technological controversies grow out of distrust in public and
private institutions. Using detailed case studies of coffee, the
printing press, margarine, farm mechanization, electricity,
mechanical refrigeration, recorded music, transgenic crops, and
transgenic animals, it shows how new technologies emerge, take
root, and create new institutional ecologies that favor their
establishment in the marketplace. The book uses these lessons from
history to contextualize contemporary debates surrounding
technologies such as artificial intelligence, online learning, 3D
printing, gene editing, robotics, and drones. It ultimately makes
the case for shifting greater responsibility to public leaders to
work with scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to manage
technological change, make associated institutional adjustments,
and expand public engagement on scientific and technological
matters.
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