Nye, David E.,  1946- <br/><br/>
Technology matters :  questions to live with / 
David E. Nye. 
 - xiv, 282 pages ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index. 
<br/><br/> Can we define "technology"? --  Does technology control us? --  Is technology predictable? --  How do historians understand technology? --  Cultural uniformity, or diversity? --  Sustainable abundance, or ecological crisis? --  Work : more, or less? : better, or worse? --  Should "the market" select technologies? --  More security, or escalating dangers? --  Expanding consciousness, or encapsulation? --  Not just one future.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262140934 9780262140935 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005052114 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technology--Philosophy<br/>Technology and civilization
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T14  / .N88 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.483