The Social Significance of Telematics
An essay on the information society
The assumption underlying this book is that we are facing a societal transformation, a “silent revolution” in fact, with consequences at least as far reaching as those of the Industrial Revolution. The author of this book wants to intervene in the current discussion about this revolution, a discussion which is normally colored by a resigned determinism maintaining that the transformation will come about all by itself as an automatic consequence of the development of technology. As opposed to this, the author wants to politicize the debate by insisting on the fact that this silent revolution is not inextricably tied to the automatically whirring computer discs of technological development, but is dependent on a number of political choices.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:7] 1984. xviii, 228 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Author's Preface | p. ix
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Translator's Preface | p. xiii
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Introduction | p. 1
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1. The Technicalities of Telematics | p. 11
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2. The Social Significance of Telematics | p. 17
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2.1. The Significance of Technology
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2.2. Technology: The Study of Human Ingenuity in the Pursuit of Chosen Goals
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2.3. Society's Generation of Alternatives
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2.4. The Future is very Present
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2.5. Technology as Anticipation: Taking Arms against Pure Objectivity
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3. The Tendential Content of Telematics | p. 35
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3.1. Technology or Economics?
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3.2. Japan: I.T. Development Policy with Material Wealth as its Premiss
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3.3. The Tendential Content of Telematics
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4. The Latent Future Potential Inherent in Telematics | p. 63
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4.1. Technology: Salvation or Perdition?
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4.2. Against Oversimplification: Towards the Structural Analysis of the Latent Future Potential Inherent in Telematics
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4.3. Traditional Normative Thinking and Its Limitations
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4.4. Anticipative Normative Thinking
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5. Idleness Doesn't Pay! | p. 95
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6. Participative Grassroots Democracy at the Push of a Button? | p. 105
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6.1. Vertical and Horizontal Communication
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6.2. Today's Democratic Dilemma
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6.3. Back to the Old Laboratory: Today's Democratic Dilemma in Yesterday's Enlightenment Philosophy
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6.4. Deadlock and Beyond
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7. The Influence of Telematics on Modes of Perception and Morality | p. 133
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7.1. The Spatial and Temporal Boundaries of Enlightenment Philosophy
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7.2. Practical Criticism Today: Transcending the Bounds of Space and Time in our Physical Environment
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7.3. The Social Environment: From Physical Need Satisfaction Towards Need Manipulation
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8. Telematics, Social Control, and the Blind Self-Deception of Unreflective Tendential Criticism | p. 149
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8.1. Knowledge is Power?
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8.2. I.T. as Military Technology
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8.3. The ‘Natural’ Opposition
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8.4. Power Old and New: Confiscation v. Self-Castigation
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9. Mediating the Qualitatively New: Some Seminal Examples of Ongoing Social Experiments in Sweden and France | p. 159
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9.1. Proving the Pudding: All Good Theories are Practically Useful!
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9.2. The Necessity for Enthusiasm
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9.3. Social Experiments with Telematics in France, Sweden and —?
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10. The Only Conceivable Way Forward — Social Experiments with Telematics: Theory, Summary, Practical Guidelines, Conclusion | p. 183
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10.1 Some Fundamental Points in the Definition of the Theoretical Concept of Social Experiments with Telematics
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10.2. Why and How Social Experiments with Telematics Can and Must Be Carried Out
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10.3. Social Experiments with Telematics as Strategic Praxis in Relation to Utopian Theory
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10.4. Practical Advantages of Social Experiments with Telematics
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10.5. Summary of the Concept of ‘Social Experiments with Telematics’ and Some Concrete Guidelines
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10.6. Conclusion: Advanced Technology in the Service of Mankind
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Notes | p. 217
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Subjects
Philosophy
Main BIC Subject
HP: Philosophy
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PHI000000: PHILOSOPHY / General