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Life by Kenneth Brown

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Life by Kenneth Brown

More than ever before, scientific and technological innovations are playing increasingly important roles in our lives. New products developing today will fundamentally shape the world around us and manipulate our lived experience in the future. In twenty years, we could be zooming on hoverboards to visit real-life Jurassic Parks or navigating with our optic-implanted GPS systems. In this age of blossoming innovation, however, many wonder: how and why are these important projects chosen? And what are the ultimate consequences of this process?

In Unreal Objects, Kate O'Riordan unpacks these crucial questions and fills a gap in the theorization of digital materialities. Through her investigation, she discovers that many objects--such as genomic projects, artificial meat, and re-creation of extinct species--cannot be granted scientific legitimacy and developed without extraordinary amounts of media, celebrity endorsements, and private investment. As a result of these filters, only certain projects take center stage when it comes to funding and political attention. O'Riordan calls these unreal objects; scientific projects and technologies whose utopian visions for the future are combined with investment and materialization in the here and now. By separating the media hype from the reality, O'Riordan shows how the huge amount of attention paid to these unreal objects hides more pressing social injustices and inequalities, while at the same time conjuring utopian visions for how life might be lived.

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Kenneth D. Brown retired in 2009 after forty years at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was Professor of Economic and Social History and Pro-Vice Chancellor. The author of nine books, including The British Toy Industry for Shire and over eighty papers and essays. Brown collects and also makes his own lead soldiers.
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ISBN 13 9780976874256
ISBN 10 0976874253
Title Life
Author Kenneth Brown
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Ken Brown Ministries, Incorporated
Year published 2010-01-15
Number of pages 210
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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