Technology and Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism
Redaktion: Sætra, Henrik Skaug

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines whether technology can be used to fix the very problems caused by technology, as the various chapters examine different aspects related to how technology has brought us where we are today, and whether technology helps or hinders us in our efforts to solve the challenges we currently face.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000886108
• Artikelnr.: 67717353

Autorenporträt

Henrik Skaug Sætra is a political scientist with a broad and interdisciplinary background and approach, mainly focusing on the political, ethical, and social implications of technology. He focuses specifically on the sustainability-related impacts of AI and has previously published a book and several articles on AI and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-solutionism

Henrik Skaug Sætra

Chapter 2 Key Concepts: Technology and Sustainable Development

Henrik Skaug Sætra

Chapter 3 Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Solutions: Placing the Climate Emergency at the Center of AI Developments

Benedetta Brevini

Chapter 4 Sustainable Climate Engineering Innovation and the Need for Accountability

Marianna Capasso and Steven Umb rello

Chapter 5 Shinigami Eyes and Social Media Labeling as a Technology for Self-care

Henrik Skaug Sætra and Jo Ese

Chapter 6 Lessons to Be Learnt? Education, Techno-solutionism, and Sustainable Development

Neil Selwyn

Chapter 7 Virtual Reality and Autism

Anders Dechsling and Anders Nordahl-Hansen

Chapter 8 The Technologically Sustained Digital Divide

Erlend Ingridsønn Nordrum

Chapter 9 Spot on SDG 5: Addressing Gender (In-)equality Within and With AI

Marisa Tschopp and Hanan Salam

Chapter 10 A Legal Sustainability Approach to Align the Order of Rules and Actions in the Context of Digital Innovation

Eduard Fosc h-Villaronga, Hadass ah Drukarch, and Marco Giraudo

Chapter 11 Governing Toward Sustainable Development: From a Path-Dependent Transition to a Disruptive One

Lilja Mósesdóttir and Ivar Jonsson

Chapter 12 Capitalism, Sustainability, and Democracy

Harald Borgebund

Chapter 13 Nudging Policy or Crowding It Out? Green Nudges as Ideational Technologies

Stuart Mills and Richard Whittle

Chapter 14 The Fallacy of Disruptive Technologies and the Primacy of Politics: Sustainable Development Goals as an Example

Imad Antoine Ibrahim

Chapter 15 Technology and the Distribution of Power

Faridun Sattarov

Chapter 16 What Does Data Valuation Literature Tell Us About Methods and Dimensions? Implications for City Data Marketplaces

Petter Kvalvik, Mary Sánchez-Gordón, and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios

Chapter 17 Techno-solutionism Facing Post-liberal Oligarchy

Ivar Jonss on and Lilja Mósesdóttir

Chapter 18 The Role of Technology in Alternatives to Growth-Based Sustainable Development

Henrik Skaug Sætra

Chapter 19 Conclusion: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-solutionism for Sustainable Development

Henrik Skaug Sætra

Rezensionen

The widely celebrated benefits of technological development during the past two centuries are now overshadowed by evidence of grave troubles in society, economics, politics, and Earth's climate, ones often delivered, alas, by the very same set of technical wonders. How are we to think about these astonishing contrasts? The writings gathered in this collection offer rigorous, insightful methods for exploring the major challenges that vex world society today. A treasure chest of theories and case histories, the book offers sustenance for all of those seeking fruitful alternatives.

--Langdon Winner, Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, author of Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-control as a theme in political thought, and The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology.

An interesting collection of chapters that reflect on the role of technology vis-à-vis sustainable development. Highly relevant against the backdrop of the imminent risks created by climate change, and rightly critical of technosolutionist approaches, the contributions to this volume helpfully highlight the political aspects of this challenging conundrum. Not to be missed.

--Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor at the University of Vienna, author of AI Ethics, Green Leviathan, and The Political Philosophy of AI.