Gaia's Web
How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth
$52.78
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
14 May 2024
Summary
At the uncanny edge of the scientific frontier, Gaia’s Web explores the promise and pitfalls the Digital Age holds for the future of our planet. Instead of the Internet of Things, environmental scientist and tech entrepreneur Karen Bakker asks, why not consider the Internet of Living Things? At the surprising and inspiring confluence of our digital and ecological futures, Bakker explores how the tools of the Digital Age could be mobilized to address our most pressing environmental ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262048750 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262048752 |
| Author: | Karen Bakker |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 14 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“A much-needed corrective to binary views of technology as either a planet saver or a planet killer.”
—New York Review of Books
Karen Bakker
Karen Bakker was a Guggenheim Fellow, a Professor at the University of British Columbia, and the Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She was the author of The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants.
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