{"title":"Kentaro Toyama","description":"\u003cp\u003eKentaro Toyama's works offer a thought-provoking exploration of technology's role within education and society. His writing challenges prevailing assumptions about digital innovation, emphasising the complexities and human factors that influence technological impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the intersection of technology, development, and social change will find Toyama’s perspective both insightful and compelling. His careful analysis encourages a critical understanding of how digital tools can shape learning and societal progress.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"geek-heresy-by-kentaro-toyama-9781610395281","title":"Geek Heresy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComputers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone apps meant to spread hygiene practices in Africa fail to improve health. Executives in Silicon Valley evangelise novel technologies at work even as they send their children to Waldorf schools that ban electronics. And four decades of incredible innovation in America have done nothing to turn the tide of rising poverty and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhy then do we keep hoping that technology will solve our greatest social ills? 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. Contrasting the outlandish claims of tech zealots with stories of people like Patrick Awuah, a Microsoft millionaire who left his engineering job to open Ghana's first liberal arts university, and Tara Sreenivasa, a graduate of a remarkable South Indian school that takes impoverished children into the high-tech offices of Goldman Sachs and Mercedes-Benz, \u003cem\u003eGeek Heresy\u003c\/em\u003e is a heartwarming reminder that it's human wisdom, not machines, that move our world forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463053754604,"sku":"9781610395281","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781610395281-geek-heresy.jpg?v=1775027500"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kentaro-toyama.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}