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Examining Internet and Technology around the World (Hardcover)
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Examining Internet and Technology around the World (Hardcover)
Series: Global Viewpoints
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This book offers comparative insights into the challenges and
opportunities surrounding emerging technology and the internet as
it is used and perceived throughout the world, providing students
with cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives. The United
Arab Emirates has a national goal of colonizing Mars by 2117, and
China seeks to modernize its entire manufacturing process to
produce cutting-edge technologies and research advances by 2025.
How are other countries using the internet and emerging
technologies to their advantage? This volume in the Global
Viewpoints series examines 10 issues pertaining to the internet and
technology, including access and censorship, alternative energy
technologies, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots,
cyberbullying, cybercrime, e-learning, GMOs, online privacy, and
virtual and augmented reality. For each topic, the volume features
eight country-level perspectives that span the world to allow for
comparisons of different nations' specific approaches to the
technology or issue. This encyclopedia takes a new direction in
understanding the importance and impact of emerging technologies on
the world, showing that even when experiencing similar
technologically related challenges or advances, these technologies
do not form one-size-fits-all solutions for every nation and
population. Even when nations develop similar technologies, human
dimensions-from policy to social norms to culture-influence people
and society across the world differently. Shows the similarities
and differences of emerging issues and successes surrounding
technology development through perspectives from different world
regions, allowing readers to make comparisons among the featured
countries in each section Provides a brief primer on each
technology- and internet-related issue that functions as a baseline
for each section Highlights that different countries and
populations having similar societal needs often need to make
dissimilar technology-related choices, usually due to varying
internal and external pressures ranging from social values and
political systems to economic needs and developmental goals
Includes photographs that help to illuminate the text
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