Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824826477 ISBN 13: 9780824826475

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2003

Synopsis

Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific.

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About the Authors

Peter D. Hershock is director of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center, Honolulu.

Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, senior academic advisor of the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University, and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824826477
• ISBN 13: 9780824826475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 760
• Editor: Hershock Peter D., Stepaniants Marietta T., Ames Roger T., Al Et