How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic's Guide to Technology
暫譯: 如何思考進步：懷疑者的科技指南

Agar, Nicholas, Whatley, Stuart, Weijers, Dan

How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic's Guide to Technology
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-28
  • 售價: $1,710
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,624
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 135
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031689372
  • ISBN-13: 9783031689376
  • 相關分類: 科技科普 Technology

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How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology's potential stand up to humanity's most difficult challenges. Will technology solve the problems of climate change, pandemics, cancer, loneliness, unhappiness, and even death? The authors show that techno-hype is all too often accepted because of the horizon bias, i.e. the modern propensity to believe that any problem that can be solved with technology will be solved in the very near future. The authors situate their analysis in a broad context, drawing on history, literature, and popular culture to emphasize their case against techno-hype. They also draw on a wide range of research, including that of biologists, philosophers of science and of language, psychologists, theorists of technological change, specialists on digital technologies, historians of ideas, and economists. As a corrective to much mainstream "futurism," the book offers principles for seeing through much of the techno-hype that circulates online and in best-selling books. The authors share insights (without the jargon) from a variety of academic disciplines, making this book an engaging read for all audiences. Readers will find a balanced framework for thinking and writing about technological progress in the face of truly vexing challenges like cancer, climate change, and colonizing mars.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《如何思考進步》是一部跨學科的著作，探討對於科技潛力的樂觀主張是否能夠應對人類面臨的最艱難挑戰。科技能否解決氣候變遷、疫情、癌症、孤獨、不快樂，甚至死亡等問題？作者指出，科技炒作往往因為「地平線偏誤」而被接受，即現代人傾向於相信任何可以用科技解決的問題都會在不久的將來得到解決。作者將其分析置於廣泛的背景中，借鑒歷史、文學和流行文化來強調他們反對科技炒作的論點。他們還引用了廣泛的研究，包括生物學家、科學與語言哲學家、心理學家、技術變革理論家、數位技術專家、思想史學家和經濟學家的研究。作為對主流「未來主義」的修正，這本書提供了原則，以幫助讀者看透在網路和暢銷書中流傳的許多科技炒作。作者分享了來自各個學術領域的見解（不使用行話），使這本書對所有讀者都具有吸引力。讀者將會找到一個平衡的框架，以思考和撰寫有關科技進步的問題，面對如癌症、氣候變遷和殖民火星等真正棘手的挑戰。

作者簡介

Nick Agar is Professor of Ethics at the University of Waikato. His principal focus has been on the ethical implications of technological change. Agar's most recent books are Dialogues on Human Enhancement (Routledge, 2024) and How to be Human in the Digital Economy (MIT Press, 2019). His 2004 book Liberal Eugenics (Wiley-Blackwell) has been widely cited and discussed. His 2010 and 2013 books on the enhancement debate, Humanity's End and Truly Human Enhancement, both with MIT Press, address reasons for doubt about the radical enhancement of our capacities. The doubts expressed in this book can be viewed as continuations of this reasoning about human enhancement technologies.

Stuart Whatley is Senior Editor at the influential international media organization Project Syndicate, where he oversees PS Quarterly and regularly edits many of the world's leading thinkers, including multiple Nobel laureate economists. His writing on technology and related topics has appeared at CNN and in Unherd, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The Hedgehog Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Baffler, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, The American Prospect, Free Inquiry, and other outlets.

Dan Weijers is Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato (New Zealand). He researches wellbeing and the ethics of new technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of wellbeing. His wellbeing policy advice has been commissioned by the New Zealand Treasury, the City Government of Dubai, and a High-Level Meeting of the United Nations.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Nick Agar 是懷卡托大學的倫理學教授。他的主要研究重點是技術變革的倫理影響。Agar 最近的著作包括《Dialogues on Human Enhancement》（人類增強的對話，Routledge，2024）和《How to be Human in the Digital Economy》（在數位經濟中如何做一個人，MIT Press，2019）。他於2004年出版的書籍《Liberal Eugenics》（自由優生學，Wiley-Blackwell）被廣泛引用和討論。他在2010年和2013年出版的有關增強辯論的書籍《Humanity's End》（人類的終結）和《Truly Human Enhancement》（真正的人類增強），均由MIT Press出版，探討了對我們能力的激進增強的懷疑理由。本書中表達的懷疑可以被視為對人類增強技術的推理的延續。

Stuart Whatley 是國際媒體組織《Project Syndicate》的高級編輯，他負責 PS Quarterly 並定期編輯許多世界頂尖思想家的文章，包括多位諾貝爾獎經濟學獲得者。他在技術及相關主題上的寫作曾出現在 CNN 及《Unherd》、《Democracy: A Journal of Ideas》、《The Hedgehog Review》、《The Los Angeles Review of Books》、《The Baffler》、《The Christian Science Monitor》、《The Guardian》、《The American Prospect》、《Free Inquiry》等多個媒體上。

Dan Weijers 是懷卡托大學（新西蘭）的高級講師。他的研究領域包括福祉和新技術的倫理。他是《International Journal of Wellbeing》（國際福祉期刊）的主編。他的福祉政策建議曾受到新西蘭財政部、迪拜市政府及聯合國高級會議的委託。

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