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Title:
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GERONTECHNOLOGY VERSUS SOCIAL ACCELERATION: AN ETHICAL CHALLENGE |
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Author(s):
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Lionel Ben-Ahmed, Juliette Sablier, Bertrand Boudin, Vincent Rialle |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-82-3 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2013 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Gerontechnology, social acceleration, ethic, care, value |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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341 |
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Last Page:
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345 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The use of technology and the development of new tools are part and parcel of a technical acceleration. However, the possibility to carry out more tasks in a shorter time hasnt brought about a liberation from constraints, or wider segments of free time to be enjoyed. On the contrary, we now have to face an acceleration in the pace of our lives and a real time- starvation in late modernity. Yet gerontology takes up the opposite bet by offering new tools for deceleration and a better life, tools meant for taking ones time with and for older persons, in accordance with the values of care. Far from being a utopia, the bet of gerontechnology is indeed an ethical demand opposed to the risk of having our norms imposed upon us by the social acceleration, and consequently lose our autonomy. |
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