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The Great Transformation - History for a Techno-Human Future (Hardcover)
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The Great Transformation - History for a Techno-Human Future (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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While artificial intelligence (AI), robots, bio-technologies and
digital media are transforming work, culture, and social life,
there is little understanding of or agreement about the scope and
significance of this change. This new interpretation of the 'great
transformation' uses history and evolutionary theory to highlight
the momentous shift in human consciousness taking place. Only by
learning from recent crises and rejecting technological determinism
will governments and communities redesign social arrangements that
ensure we all benefit from the new and emerging technologies. The
book documents the transformations under way in financial markets,
entertainment, and medicine, affecting all aspects of work and
social life. It draws on historical sociology and co-evolutionary
theory arguing that the radical evolution of human consciousness
and social life now under way is comparable with, if not greater
than, the agrarian revolution (10000 BCE), the explosion of
science, philosophy, and religion in the Axial Age (600 BCE), and
the recent Industrial Revolution. Turning to recent major
socio-economic crisis, and asking what can be learnt from them, the
answer is we cannot afford this time around to repeat the failures
of elites and theoretical systems such as economics to attend
appropriately to radical change. We need to think beyond the
constraints of determinist and reductionist explanations and
embrace the idea of deep freedom. This book will appeal to
educators, social scientists, policy-makers, business leaders, and
students. It concludes with social design principles that can
inform deliberative processes and new social arrangements that
ensure everyone benefits from the affordances of the new and
emerging technologies.
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