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Technology and Sustainable Development The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-Solutionism

By: Henrik Skaug Sætra(Editor)
276 pages, 13 b/w illustrations, 3 tables
Publisher: Routledge
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About this book

Technological change is at the core of all major disruptions in human history, and revolutions, wars, and general development are regularly connected to some sort of technological change. However, not all development is beneficial. While technology has fueled great innovations and rapid development, the notion of sustainable development has gained prominence as we now experience serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.

This book examines whether technology can be used to fix the very problems caused by technology, as the various chapters examine different aspects related to how technology has brought us where we are today (which some will say is the best place humanity's been at according to a range of metrics), and whether technology helps or hinders us in our efforts to solve the challenges we currently face. The issues discussed cover the three sustainability dimensions and include topics such as the materiality of AI, technology in education, AI for gender equality, innovation and the digital divide, and how technology relates to power, the political system, and capitalism. The chapters all build on a theoretical backdrop of technological change, sustainable development, and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, both to examine how these goals capture or overlook central elements of sustainable development, and also to facilitate and create a common framework of engagement between the chapters.

This book provides a novel combination of traditional theories that are explored through different case studies, providing the ground for a better understanding of how and when technology can – and cannot – be the enabler of sustainable development. It is thus an important resource for students of all disciplines, technologists, and those developing and applying new technologies. It is also a valuable resource for politicians and regulators attempting to harness the power of technology for good, while limiting its negative potential.
 

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-solutionism / Henrik Skaug Sætra
Chapter 2. Key Concepts: Technology and Sustainable Development / Henrik Skaug Sætra
Chapter 3. Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Solutions: Placing the Climate Emergency at the Center of AI Developments / Benedetta Brevini
Chapter 4. Sustainable Climate Engineering Innovation and the Need for Accountability / Marianna Capasso and Steven Umb rello
Chapter 5. Shinigami Eyes and Social Media Labeling as a Technology for Self-care / Henrik Skaug Sætra and Jo Ese
Chapter 6. Lessons to Be Learnt? Education, Techno-solutionism, and Sustainable Development / Neil Selwyn
Chapter 7. Virtual Reality and Autism / Anders Dechsling and Anders Nordahl-Hansen
Chapter 8. The Technologically Sustained Digital Divide / Erlend Ingridsonn Nordrum
Chapter 9. Spot on SDG 5: Addressing Gender (In-)equality Within and With AI / Marisa Tschopp and Hanan Salam
Chapter 10. A Legal Sustainability Approach to Align the Order of Rules and Actions in the Context of Digital Innovation / Eduard Fosc h-Villaronga, Hadass ah Drukarch, and Marco Giraudo
Chapter 11. Governing Toward Sustainable Development: From a Path-Dependent Transition to a Disruptive One / Lilja Mosesdottir and Ivar Jonsson
Chapter 12. Capitalism, Sustainability, and Democracy / Harald Borgebund
Chapter 13. Nudging Policy or Crowding It Out? Green Nudges as Ideational Technologies / Stuart Mills and Richard Whittle
Chapter 14. The Fallacy of Disruptive Technologies and the Primacy of Politics: Sustainable Development Goals as an Example / Imad Antoine Ibrahim
Chapter 15. Technology and the Distribution of Power / Faridun Sattarov
Chapter 16. What Does Data Valuation Literature Tell Us About Methods and Dimensions? Implications for City Data Marketplaces / Petter Kvalvik, Mary Sanchez-Gordon, and Ricardo Colomo-Palacios
Chapter 17. Techno-solutionism Facing Post-liberal Oligarchy / Ivar Jonss on and Lilja Mosesdottir
Chapter 18. The Role of Technology in Alternatives to Growth-Based Sustainable Development / Henrik Skaug Sætra
Chapter 19. Conclusion: The Promise and Pitfalls of Techno-solutionism for Sustainable Development / Henrik Skaug Sætra

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Biography

Henrik Skaug Sætra is a political scientist with a broad and interdisciplinary background and approach, mainly focusing on the political, ethical, and social implications of technology. He focuses specifically on the sustainability-related impacts of AI and has previously published a book and several articles on AI and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

By: Henrik Skaug Sætra(Editor)
276 pages, 13 b/w illustrations, 3 tables
Publisher: Routledge
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"The widely celebrated benefits of technological development during the past two centuries are now overshadowed by evidence of grave troubles in society, economics, politics, and Earth's climate, ones often delivered, alas, by the very same set of technical wonders. How are we to think about these astonishing contrasts? The writings gathered in this collection offer rigorous, insightful methods for exploring the major challenges that vex world society today. A treasure chest of theories and case histories, the book offers sustenance for all of those seeking fruitful alternatives."
– Langdon Winner, Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, author of Autonomous Technology: Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought, and The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

"An interesting collection of chapters that reflect on the role of technology vis-a-vis sustainable development. Highly relevant against the backdrop of the imminent risks created by climate change, and rightly critical of technosolutionist approaches, the contributions to this volume helpfully highlight the political aspects of this challenging conundrum. Not to be missed."
– Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor at the University of Vienna, author of AI Ethics, Green Leviathan, and The Political Philosophy of AI

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