Reading Assignment (450 words)
Samuel Alexander, A Critique of Techno-Optimism: Efficiency without Sufficiency is Lost. In Working Paper Series, January, 2014. Available at: http://samuelalexander.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/A-Critique-of-Techno-Optimism-Samuel-Alexander.pdf (Links to an external site.)
short answers to the following questions (no more than 150 words per question):
1.What is the author’s main critique of techno-optimism?
2.What is Jevon’s paradox?
3.What was the most impactful paragraph in the article for you and why?