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Future courses of human societies : critical reflections from the natural and social sciences / edited by Kléber Ghimire.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in science, technology, and society
- Routledge studies in science, technology and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Social change.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 202 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Contents:
- Methodological and analytical contextualization
- Future as an object of inquiry: an introduction / Kléber Ghimire
- Contradictory role of technology
- Physics, science and technology in the future / Junichiro Fukai
- The evolution of future societies with unlimited energy supply? / Claudio Capiglia
- Nanotechnology and future technological evolutions / Ruggero Micheletto
- Meaning and object of progress in the future
- 3d printing: a new industrial revolution? / Juan Pablo Ripamonti
- Technology, work and social conflictuality / Marc Troisvallets
- Economic progress and civilizational changes in the far-off future / Kléber Ghimire
- Organization of collective life in the future
- On democracy and technology in the long term / Mathew Filner
- Ethics and laws of the future / Vesselin Popovski
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138488915
- 1138488917
- OCLC:
- 1031040043
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