Acknowledgments
Introduction / Adam Briggle, Philip Brey and Edward Spence
Mapping the landscape
Well-being in philosophy, psychology, and economics / Philip Brey
Theorizing technology / Carl Mitcham and Adam Briggle
Theoretical approaches
Quality of life in technological society : a macrosociological approach / Ruut Veenhoven
Capabilities and technology / Justine Johnstone
Happiness and meaning in a technological age : a psychological approach / Michael Steger and Joo Yeon Shin
The ambivalence of the good life : happiness, economics, technology, and relational goods / Luigino Bruni
Desire-satisfactionism and technology / Anton Tupa
Consumer products and well-being
Consuming happiness / Lindsey Patterson and Robert Biswas-Diener
Thinking through consumerism and technology / Pak Hang Wong
Consumption and sustainability : a neo-epicurean approach to a sustainable good life in a technological world / Edward Spence
Cell phones, ipods, and subjective well-being / Valerie Tiberius
Information technology and well-being
New social media and the virtues / Shannon Vallor
Web 2.0: community as commodity? / Diane P. Michelfelder
Types of internet use, well-being and the good life : ethical views from prudential psychology / Omar Rosas
Virtually good? : disclosing the presuppositions behind the claimed inferiority of virtual worlds / Johnny Hartz Søraker
Medical and agricultural technology and well-being
What's wrong with techno food? / David Kaplan
Human enhancement and well-being / Bengt Brülde
On hubris and hybrids : ascesis and the ethics of technology / Peter Paul Verbeek
Brave new world : platonism 2.0 / Tsjalling Swierstra
Care robots, virtual virtue, and the best possible life / Mark Coeckelbergh
Technology design and policy
Can we design for well-being? / Ibo van de Poel
The university, metrics, and the good life / Robert Frodeman, J. Britt Holbrook and Kelli Barr
Science policy and the expectation of health : the case for reforming peer review at the national institutes of health / Adam Briggle
Neutrality and technology : ortega y gasset on the good life / Jeroen van den Hoven
Technological change and the destabilization of liberal politics / Govert Valkenburg
Contributors
Index.
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