The Hidden Cost of Progress You Never Agreed To
By Owen Blackwood
Length44m
About this audiobook
Unintended consequences, technological unemployment, and the losses nobody counts when celebrating innovation and advancement as automatically good. This critical progress assessment reveals exactly what gets sacrificed for development including community, craft, and autonomy lost forever. Consider the full cost of progress beyond material benefits and whether what we gain is worth what we lose in the process of advancing.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Business and Economics
Length44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2025
LanguageEnglish
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