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Celebrity 'wonks' buy into technological fix illusions Celebrity 'wonks' buy into technocratic illusions about issues without paying attention to who has power and who lacks it, who oppresses and who is oppressed. They run with the crowd that believes ending poverty is a matter of technical expertise - doing things such as expanding food yields with nitrogen-fixing leguminous plants or solar-powered drip irrigation. But the celebrity desire to gain political power and social approval breeds intellectual conformity, precisely the opposite of what we need to achieve real changes. GPS helps Pygmies defend forest When the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon go into the forest to hunt and gather, they carry a GPS - Global Positioning System - on which they can record the exact location of their hunting grounds, sacred trees and important rivers - and provide evidence of illegal logging and encroachment by big logging companies into their community forest. How the invention of a box changed our world Nissan turns over a new Leaf with a zero-emission family hatchback Solar Cookers: appropriate technology as a technological fix Too much imported technology worries Malawi
Celebrity 'wonks' buy into technological fix illusions
GPS helps Pygmies defend forest
How the invention of a box changed our world
Nissan turns over a new Leaf with a zero-emission family hatchback
Solar Cookers: appropriate technology as a technological fix
Too much imported technology worries Malawi
