| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages) |
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SUNY series in philosophy and biology |
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SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
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| Contents |
The Axis of Factual Success: From Controlling Circumstances to Colonizing Consciousness -- Technology and the Biasing of Conduct: Establishing the Grammar of Our Narrative -- Primordial Technology in the Drama of Childhood -- Freedom as a Dialectic of Projecting Self and Objecting World -- The Canons of Freedom and Moral Transparency: In Technology and the Media We Trust -- The Imagined Neutrality of Technology -- Individual Freedom and the Obdurate, Objecting World -- Just Saying No to the Logic of Choice -- Technology as Savior: It's Getting Better, Better All the Time -- Technology: The Original Broken Promise -- Toward an Ethics of Resistance -- The Direction of Technical Evolution: A Different Kind of Caveat -- Cultivating Discontent: Advantaging Existence--Living Apart and at a Distance -- The Corporation as Technology -- The New Colonialism: From an Ignoble Past to an Invisible Future -- Extending Control through Cultivating Dependence: The Colonial Method -- The Evolution of Colonial Intent into the Development Objective and Beyond -- The Colonization of Consciousness -- Pluralism versus the Commodification of Values -- Is There a Universal Technological Path? -- Independent Values, the Value of Independence, and the Erosion of Traditions -- Practicing the Unprecedented: A Buddhist Intermission -- Appreciative Virtuosity: The Buddhist Alternative to Control and Independence -- Liberating Intimacy: A New Copernican Revolution -- Responding to Trouble: The Character of Buddhist Technologies -- Technological Difference: The Case of Healing |
| Summary |
"By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments. Hershock urges reinvention of the technological "wheel," and, at the same time acknowledges the need for new forms of practice suited to our rapidly evolving social, political, and economic circumstances. His persuasive presentation urges the skillful spinning of a new "wheel of the dharma.""--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-283) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Buddhism -- Social aspects.
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Buddhism -- Doctrines.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- General.
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Information technology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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Buddhism -- Doctrines
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Buddhism -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98046706 |
| ISBN |
0585316775 |
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9780585316772 |
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1438406606 |
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9781438406602 |
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