Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability Free

Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability

C.A. Bowers The University of Georgia PressAthes, GANovember 2000ISBN 0-8203-2230-X

Keywords: Computers, Ecology, National Cultures, Globalization

Bowers examines the commercial and educational trends that have left us uncritically optimistic about global computing, and he questions the assumption that computers are simply tools that enable us to easily perform difficult tasks. Bowers also addresses the possibility of not achieving ecological sustainability as a result increasing global computing. Let Them Eat Datais essential reading if we are to begin democratizing technological decisions,conserving true cultural diversity and intergenerational forms of knowledge, and living within the limits and possibilities of the Earth's natural systems.