![]() ![]() In this incisive book, Toyama cures us of the manic rhetoric of digital utopians and reinvigorates us with a deeply people-centric view of social change. Why then do we keep hoping that technology will solve our greatest social ills? And four decades of incredible innovation in America have done nothing to turn the tide of rising poverty and inequality. Executives in Silicon Valley evangelize novel technologies at work even as they send their children to Waldorf schools that ban electronics. Mobile phone apps meant to spread hygiene practices in Africa fail to improve health. After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can’t deliver.Ĭomputers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don’t know what to do with them. ![]()
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