| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in philosophy and biology
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SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-283) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- Canons of Freedom and Moral Transparency: In Technology and the Media We Trust -- 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 -- Direction of Technical Evolution: A Different Kind of Caveat -- Cultivating Discontent: Advantaging Existence--Living Apart and at a Distance -- Corporation as Technology -- New Colonialism: From an Ignoble Past to an Invisible Future -- Extending Control through Cultivating Dependence: The Colonial Method -- Evolution of Colonial Intent into the Development Objective and Beyond -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Information technology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. |
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Buddhism -- Social aspects.
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Buddhism -- Social aspects. |
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Buddhism -- Doctrines.
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Buddhism -- Doctrines. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hershock, Peter D. Reinventing the wheel. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1999 0791442314 (DLC) 98046706 (OCoLC)40113445 |
| ISBN |
0585316775 (electronic book) |
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9780585316772 (electronic book) |
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