Commodities, Comforts, and Chaos

Arup Maharatna ()

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Abstract: There is an incessant flow of technical innovations for newer and newer consumer goods and gadgets in our contemporary times. Even though technology has benefitted modern civilization through major scientific inventions in industry, medicine, health, energy, agronomy there are some market-driven indiscriminate innovations in the field of electrical, electronic, digital industries which are mostly geared to, and sometimes propelled by, an urge for ruthless consumerism and mindless comforts.

Keywords: industries; consumerism; technical; technical innovation; scientific invention; consumer goods; gadgets; technology; modern civilization; civilization; industry; medicine; health; energy; electronic; digital industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-08
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