What Technology Wants

摘要

As the effects of climate change and other environmental stresses become more apparent, some technological prophets are alarmed, while others are more sanguine than ever. Jared Diamond has gone from Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) to Collapse (2005). James Lovelocks original Gaia, a light of hopernin the gloomy late 1970s, has been succeeded by The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back-and How We Can Still Save Humanity (2007) and The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning(2009).