
Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies book by Calestous Juma
By Calestous JumaNew technologies may be heralded as life-changing innovations or feared as risks to moral values, human health, and environmental safety. Anxieties surrounding technology are often heightened by perceptions that their benefits will accrue to small sections of society while the risks are more widely distributed. Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order and stability as one of today's biggest policy challenges. It looks at a number of historical examples, including coffee, electricity, margarine, farm mechanization, recorded music, transgenic crops and transgenic animals, to show how new technologies emerge, take root and create new institutional ecologies that favor their dominance in the marketplace.
Book details
- Paperback
- 433 pages
- English
- 9780190467036
- 0190467037
About Calestous Juma
calestous juma was professor of the practice of international development and director of the science, technology, and globalization project at harvard ken Read More about Calestous Juma
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