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The sceptical optimist

The sceptical optimist

22 Dicembre 2015 Redazione SoloTablet
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BIBLIOTECA TECNOLOGICA - Why technology isn't the answer to everything è l'affermazione del filosofo etico Nichola Agar in un libro che esplora le problematiche etiche e filosofiche emergenti dalla parvasività della tecnologia. L'intenzione è di mettere in discussione e suggerire una riflessione critica sulla stretta connessione tra progresso tecnologico e benessere. La riflessione è accompagnata dalla presentazione di una alternativa, più realistica e destinata ad avere impatti maggiori di tipo positivo. La proposta comprende alcuni studi psicologici sul significato di benessere nella percezione comune.

SoloTablet segnala uno dei libri più letti nei mercati anglosassoni e in arrivo probabilmente anche in Italia nel corso del 2016

Nichola Agar, The Sceptical Optimist: Why technology isnt the answer to everything - OUP Oxford; 1 edition (July 9, 2015)

The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many smart devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as radical optimism.

Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress willautomatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism assigns to technological progress an undeserved pre-eminence among all the goals pursued by our civilization. Instead, Agar uses the most recent psychological studies about human perceptions of well-being to create a realistic model of the impact technology will have.

Although he accepts that technological advance does produce benefits, he insists that these are significantly less than those proposed by the radical optimists, and aspects of such progress can also pose a threat to values such as social justice and our relationship with nature, while problems such as poverty cannot be understood intechnological terms. He concludes by arguing that a more realistic assessment of the benefits that technological advance can bring will allow us to better manage its risks in future.

 

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