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The Dark Side of Technology

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Dark Side of Technology

By Peter Townsend

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About the book

The Dark Side of Technology is intended as a powerful wake-up call to the potential dangers that could, in the near future, destroy our current advanced civilizations. The author examines how fragile our dependence on electronic communications, information storage, and satellites is, as vulnerability increases in an age of raising security concerns. This weakness is evident from the exponential rise in cyber-crime and terrorism. Satellites are crucial tomodern-day living, but they can be destroy...Show more

Philosophy of science

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9780198826293

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2018

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