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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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2014048936 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781610395281 (hbk.) |
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9781610395298 (ebk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
IIMU |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
303.483 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Toyama, Kentaro. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Geek heresy : |
| Remainder of title |
rescuing social change from the cult of technology / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Kentaro Toyama. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
PublicAffairs, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2015] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 334 pages |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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rdamedia |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-314) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban schools and developed digital platforms for remote agrarian communities. But after a decade of designing technologies for humanitarian causes, Toyama concluded that no technology, however dazzling, could cause social change on its own. Technologists and policy-makers love to boast about modern innovation, and in their excitement, they exuberantly tout technology's boon to society. But what have our gadgets actually accomplished? Over the last four decades, America saw an explosion of new technologies - from the Internet to the iPhone, from Google to Facebook - but in that same period, the rate of poverty stagnated at a stubborn 13%, only to rise in the recent recession. So, a golden age of innovation in the world's most advanced country did nothing for our most prominent social ill. Toyama's warning resounds: Don't believe the hype! Technology is never the main driver of social progress. Geek Heresy inoculates us against the glib rhetoric of tech utopians by revealing that technology is only an amplifier of human conditions. By telling the moving stories of extraordinary people like Patrick Awuah, a Microsoft millionaire who left his lucrative engineering job to open Ghana's first liberal arts university, and Tara Sreenivasa, a graduate of a remarkable South Indian school that takes children from dollar-a-day families into the high-tech offices of Goldman Sachs and Mercedes-Benz, Toyama shows that even in a world steeped in technology, social challenges are best met with deeply social solutions. "-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Technological innovations |
| General subdivision |
Economic aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Technological innovations |
| General subdivision |
Social aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Social change. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. |
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bisacsh |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects. |
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bisacsh |
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COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General. |
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bisacsh |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics. |
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bisacsh |
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Monograph |
