Innovation and Its Enemies: Why People Resist New Technologies

New Technologies May Be Heralded As Life-changing Innovations Or Feared As Risks To Moral Values, Human Health, And Environmental Safety. Anxieties Surrounding Technology Are Often Heightened By Perceptions That Their Benefits Will Accrue To Small Sections Of Society While The Risks Are More Widely Distributed. Innovation And Its Enemies Identifies The Tension Between The Need For Innovation And The Pressure To Maintain Continuity, Social Order And Stability As One Of Today's Biggest Policy Challenges. Gales Of Creative Destruction -- Brewing Trouble: Coffee -- Stop The Presses: Printing The Qur'an -- Smear Campaigns: Margarine -- Gaining Traction: Farm Mechanization -- Charged Arguments: Electricity -- Cool Reception: Refrigerated Foods -- Facing The Music: Recorded Sound -- Taking Root: Genetically Modified Crops -- Swimming Against The Current: Transgenic Salmon -- Oiling The Wheels Of Novelty. Calestous Juma. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.