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- Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Tom Meltzer explains why function inflation is such a turn-off.
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- But It's Only a Tool!
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Capitalism, Socialism and Technology
A Comparative Study of Cuba and Jamaica
Resource Type: Book
Does a socialist Third World country tackle technological development and mechanization in different ways from a capitalist country? In this meticulous field study of sugar cane harvesting in two leading producer countries - Cuba and Jamaica - Dr. Edquist finds that the causes and consequences of technical change differ significantly. He advances original ideas as to the relationship between technology and socio-economic conditions.
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- The Closing Circle
Man, Technology & the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
With employees of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system on strike, the Silicon Valley tech elite has reminded us all that despite their enlightened Bay Area lifestyles, they are still, at root, a bunch of rich dudes. Corey Robin ably documents the reactionary politics and moral degeneracy of people who see themselves as heroic entrepreneurs and the people who get them to work as greedy parasites.
- Does the Bitcoin frenzy make any sense at all?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The author explains how the strange story of a "crypto-currency" reveals the underlying irrationality of a system that is designed to work for the rich only.
- Everyday Life in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Everyday life is non-philosophical in relation to philosophy and represents reality in relation to ideality.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Illich, Ivan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
- Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices -- customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of updates would enable the hardware they paid for to actually work, only to discover the manufacturer can turn their device into a useless brick when it so chooses.
- Nest's move to stop supporting Revolv smart hub leaves customers with costly 'brick'
Internet of Things customers need to be aware what will and will not work without internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Here's a major downside to the so-called Internet of Things -- companies can potentially disconnect your smart devices and leave them essentially useless at any time.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- A post-affluence critique
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin (Ramparts Press, 1971) reviewed by Jeremy Brecher Root & Branch No. 4 (1973), pp. 7-22.
- Progress Without People
In Defense of Luddhism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
- Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Red Menace #3
Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Techniker als Produzenten und als Produkt
Resource Type: Book
- Technological Change and Working Women
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
- Technology was supposed to make us more capable. Instead it has made us scarily dependent
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Technology has promised to make things easier and elevate the species. But much technology emerging today has only increased our dependence on technology by rendering obsolete many of the skills we once relied upon.
- Work and New Technologies
Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
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