Virtually lost : young Americans in the digital technocracy /: young Americans in the digital technocracy. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Garry Robson.
• Authors: Robson, Garry
• Contents: Introduction 1. Big Nihilism: How the Silicon Valley Culture Hurts Young People 2. The Road to Technocracy: From Sir Francis Bacon to the World Economic Forum 3. Shaping Twentieth-Century America: Elite-Military Social Engineering 4. Sustainable Development as Technocracy: Population Control and the Corporate Capture of the Environmental Movement 5. Human-Machine Systems and their Discontents 6. The Classroom Laboratory #1: The Self-Esteem Movement, the Therapeutic Ethos and Utopian Education Reform. 7. The Classroom Laboratory #2: The Child-Machine Interface, Social Emotional Learning, and the Data-Mined Pupil as ‘Standing Reserve’. 8. Conclusion: Technocracy Unchained Vs. the Soul of the World
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 303.4833; Information technology -- Social aspects -- United States; Internet and youth -- United States; Internet industry -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000875003; 9781000874976
• Related ISBNs: 9780367418588
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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