The False Promises of the Digital Revolution : How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable
Cover; Contents; Preface vii; Chapter 1: Introduction 1; Chapter 2: The Cultural Non-Neutrality of the Digital Revolution and the Deepening Ecological Crisis 13; Chapter 3: The Digital Differences Between Community-Centered and Corporate Capitalism 33; Chapter 4: Why Cultures Cannot Be Reduced to Information and Data 51; Chapter 5: How the Digital Revolution Contributes to the Colonization of Other Cultures and Increases the Threat of Terrorism 69; Chapter 6: Making the Connections Between Educational Reforms and Democratizing the Uses of Digital Technologies 85
Summary
The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C.A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce the deep and ecologically problematic cultural assumptions of the West: the myth of progress, the substitution of data for different cultural traditions of wisdom, the connections between print and abstract thinking, the myth of individual autonomy, the conduit view of language that hides how words)
