Slow Tech and ICT A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach /

• Main Authors: Patrignani, Norberto (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Whitehouse, Diane (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Management.; Industrial management.; Business ethics.; IT in Business.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Business Ethics.

This book makes an important contribution to the recent evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are human-centred and socially desirable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically acceptable. It introduces the concept of moral, equitable and environmental limits in the IC...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Pneumatophores
• Speed Limits in Cyberspace
• Stories about Speed and Time
• Information: Environmental and Human Limits
• The Beginning of a New Renaissance in ICT
• Slow Tech: A Good, Clean, and Fair ICT
• Applying Slow Tech in Real Life
• Energy, Time and Information: a Long-term View of ICT.