TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nye,David E.
TI  - Technology matters: questions to live with 
SN  - 0262140934
AV  - T14 .N88 2006
U1  - 303.483 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Technology and civilization
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -