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- ISBN 9780745311210
- Weight: 222g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 1996
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'[It] does a great service in making available a clear set of critiques of the headlong rush into a planned and administered future, while at the same time providing tools for analysis and policy which demonstrate the necessity, not to plan the future, but to take responsibility for the grounds upon which it can emerge' Futures
'An authoritative guide to thinking seriously about information technology, [It] helps to shift debate from its current journalistic level to a more considered overview of the phenomenon' Dr Jonathan Bigwell, University of Reading
Contents: Technological Whirlwind • Darker Side of West • Microcybernetic Revolution & Dialectics of Ignorance • Meta-Technology of Pure Control • Democratic Franchise & Electronic Frontier • Ecology & Cyberculture • Anthropology of Cyberculture • New Political Paradigm?
'An authoritative guide to thinking seriously about information technology, [It] helps to shift debate from its current journalistic level to a more considered overview of the phenomenon' Dr Jonathan Bigwell, University of Reading
Contents: Technological Whirlwind • Darker Side of West • Microcybernetic Revolution & Dialectics of Ignorance • Meta-Technology of Pure Control • Democratic Franchise & Electronic Frontier • Ecology & Cyberculture • Anthropology of Cyberculture • New Political Paradigm?
Ziauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, award-winning writer, cultural critic and intellectual specialising in Muslim thought, futures studies and science and cultural relations. He is the author of How Do You Know?: Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations (Pluto, 2006), Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema (Pluto, 2002) and Postmodernism and the Other (Pluto, 1997).
Dr Jerry Ravetz is the author of the classic study, Scientific Knowledge and Social Problems, and the director of the Research Methods Consultancy. He has a particular interest in the history of ideas and the philosophy of science.
