Technology matters : questions to live with / David E. Nye.

By:

Nye, David E, 1946- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0262140934
9780262140935

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.483 22

LOC classification:

T14 .N88 2006

Contents:

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.

Review: "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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	303.483 NYE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A374157B

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Previous	303.483 MUR The Enlightenment cyborg : a history of communications and control in the human machine, 1660-1830 /	303.483 NEV Fabrication : essays on making things and making meaning /	303.483 NOW Re-thinking science : knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty /	303.483 NYE Technology matters : questions to live with /	303.483 OTT The Victorian eye : a political history of light and vision in Britain, 1800-1910 /	303.483 PAC The people shapers /	303.483 PAR Conceptualizing technological change : theoretical and empirical explorations /	Next

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.

"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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