Computing Our Way to Paradise?
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Computing Our Way to Paradise?

The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Computing Our Way to Paradise?

The Role of Internet and Communication Technologies in Sustainable Consumption and Globalization

About this book

Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated upon a strong, extensive, and interconnected global ICT network of products, processes, and services, the real environmental and health benefits remain far from certain. ICTs have been promoted as the next economic wave with the potential to generate jobs, wealth, and prosperity to surpass that of the industrial era. It is assumed the environmental impacts will be negligible or even beneficial in this shift towards a service economy. Rattle investigates these current and expected trends in ICTs and their potential contribution to sustainable development. His book is an indispensable overview for researchers and instructors in globalization, Internet communication technologies, and environmental anthropology or sociology, as well as a resource for policy makers in environmental protection, sustainable development, sustainable consumption, and the social role of science and technology.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Chapter 1. ICTs and Globalization: Asking Important Questions
  5. Chapter 2. The Poverty of Affluence: Sustainable Consumption and Global Environmental Change
  6. Chapter 3. Virtual Morality: Globalization, ICTs, and Sustainable Consumption
  7. Chapter 4. Lulled to Complacency: ICTs and Energy and Materials Consumption
  8. Chapter 5. The Efficiency Paradox: Intensity and Consumption
  9. Chapter 6. From Social Meanings to Global Conformity: ICTs and the Global Commons
  10. Chapter 7. Pathological Tendencies: The Health Link
  11. Chapter 8. Incantations and ICTs: A Global Ideological Pervasion
  12. Chapter 9. Redefining Reality, Transforming Values
  13. Chapter 10. Global Transformations: Serious Considerations and Promising Opportunities
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author