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The Dark Side of Technology (Paperback)
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The Dark Side of Technology (Paperback)
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The Dark Side of Technology is intended as a powerful wake-up call
to the potential dangers that could, in the near future, destroy
our current advanced civilizations. The author examines how fragile
our dependence on electronic communications, information storage,
and satellites is, as vulnerability increases in an age of raising
security concerns. This weakness is evident from the exponential
rise in cyber-crime and terrorism. Satellites are crucial to
modern-day living, but they can be destroyed by energetic space
debris or damaged by solar emissions. Destruction of data,
communications, and electrical power grids would bring disaster to
advanced nations. Such events could dramatically change our social
and economic landscapes within the next 10-20 years. New technology
equally impacts employment, agriculture, biology, medicine,
transport, languages, and our social well-being. This book explores
both the good and the bad aspects of technological advances, in
order to raise awareness and promote caution. Technology may be
impressive, but we need to be mindful of potential negative future
effects. We ought to seriously consider the long term consequences
of an increasing failure to pursue healthy life styles, use of
ineffective antibiotics, genetic mutations, and the destruction of
food supplies and natural resources. The diverse topics covered
aims to show why we must act now to plan for both the predictable
downsides of technology, and also develop contingency plans for
potential major catastrophes, including natural events where we
cannot define accurate time scales.
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