Technology matters : questions to live with / David E. Nye.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xiv, 282 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262140934
- 9780262140935
- 303.483 22
- T14 .N88 2006
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 303.483 NYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A374157B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.
1. Can we define "technology"? -- 2. Does technology control us? -- 3. Is technology predictable? -- 4. How do historians understand technology? -- 5. Cultural uniformity, or diversity? -- 6. Sustainable abundance, or ecological crisis? -- 7. Work : more, or less? : better, or worse? -- 8. Should "the market" select technologies? -- 9. More security, or escalating dangers? -- 10. Expanding consciousness, or encapsulation? -- 11. Not just one future.
"Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. In Technology Matters, Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical examples from many societies."--BOOK JACKET.
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