The retro future {looking to the past to reinvent the future}

"To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited...

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1. Verfasser: Greer, John Michael (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Gabriola Island, Canada New Society Publishers 2017
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Zusammenfassung:"To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it's clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are limited to the tools we have on hand right now. This book is about one very powerful option: deliberate technological regression. Technological regression isn't about 'going back,' it's about using the past as a resource to meet the needs of the present. It starts from the recognition that older technologies generally use fewer resources and cost less than modern equivalents, and it embraces the heresy of technological choice, our ability to choose or refuse the technologies pushed by corporate interests. People are already ditching smartphones in favor of 'dumb phones' and land lines and eBook sales are declining, while printed books rebound. Clear signs among many that blind faith in progress is faltering and opening up the possibility that the best way forward may well involve going back
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:256 Seiten
ISBN:9780865718661
978-0-86571-866-1
0865718660
0-86571-866-0