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By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinventing the Wheel assesses the personal and communal costs of our global economic and technological commitments. Hershock urges reinvention of the technological wheel, and, at the same time, acknowledges the need for new forms of practice suited to our rapidly evolving social, political, and economic circumstances. His persuasive presentation urges the skillful spinning of a new wheel of the dharma.
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Reinventing the Wheel : A Buddhist Response to the Information Age SUNY Series in Philosophy and Biology
author
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Hershock, Peter D.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0791442322
print isbn13
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9780791442326
ebook isbn13
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9780585316772
language
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English
subject
Information technology--Religious aspects--Buddhism, Buddhism--Social aspects, Buddhism--Doctrines.
publication date
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1999
lcc
:
BQ4570.I55H47 1999eb
ddc
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294.3/375
subject
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Information technology--Religious aspects--Buddhism, Buddhism--Social aspects, Buddhism--Doctrines.
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Reinventing the Wheel
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SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology David Edward Shaner, editor
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Reinventing the Wheel
A Buddhist Response to the Information Age
Peter D. Hershock
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1999 State University of New York
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hershock, Peter D. Reinventing the wheel : a Buddhist response to the information age / Peter D. Hershock. p. cm. (SUNY series in philosophy and biology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-4231-4 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-4232-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Information technologyReligious aspectsBuddhism. 2. BuddhismSocial aspects. 3. BuddhismDoctrines. I. Title. II. Series. BQ4570.I55H47 1999 294.3'375dc21 98-46706 CIP
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For Supin
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CONTENTS
Introduction
xi
Part One The Axis of Factual Success: From Controlling Circumstances to Colonizing Consciousness
Chapter 1. Technology and the Biasing of Conduct: Establishing the Grammar of Our Narrative
3
Primordial Technology in the Drama of Childhood
4
Freedom As a Dialectic of Projecting Self and Objecting World
8
Chapter 2. The Canons of Freedom and Moral Transparency: In Technology and the Media We Trust
19
The Imagined Neutrality of Technology
20
Individual Freedom and the Obdurate, Objecting World
27
Just Saying No to the Logic of Choice
32
Chapter 3. Technology As Savior: It's Getting Better, Better All the Time
35
Technology: The Original Broken Promise
39
Toward an Ethics of Resistance
52
Chapter 4. The Direction of Technical Evolution: A Different Kind of Caveat
55
Cultivating Discontent: Advantaging ExistenceLiving Apart and at a Distance
56
The Corporation As Technology
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Chapter 5. The New Colonialism: From an Ignoble Past to an Invisible Future
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