Gaia's Web
How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth
(Sprache: Englisch)
"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that...
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"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. It argues that digital technology might accelerate environmental sustainability and that engaging with environmental issues may transform Big Tech for the better, if the sector successfully addresses spiraling energy use, pollution, privacy and surveillance issues"--
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ContentsPART I: REGENERATING
1 WIRING GAIA 3
2 THE ALGORITHMIC OCEAN 21
3 FACEBOOK FOR WILDLIFE 47
4 HACKING CLIMATE 67
5 A DIGITAL GREEN NEW DEAL 87
PART II: INSTANTIATING
6 A PARLIAMENT OF EARTHLINGS 113
7 ON THE BLOCKCHAIN, NO ONE KNOWS YOU’RE A FOREST 137
8 EMPATHY MACHINES 157
9 BIOCYBORG KIN 183
10 WHEN ALL THE COMPUTERS MELT INTO AIR 211
Acknowledgments 235
Notes 239
Index 269
Autoren-Porträt von Karen Bakker
Karen Bakker was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Professor at the University of British Columbia, and the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the author of The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. She passed away in August 2023.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Karen Bakker
- 2024, 288 Seiten, Maße: 14,6 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: The MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262048752
- ISBN-13: 9780262048750
- Erscheinungsdatum: 16.04.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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