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Technology matters : questions to live with
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Technology matters : questions to live with

Author: David E Nye
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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."--Jacket.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David E Nye
ISBN: 0262140934 9780262140935 9780262640671 0262640678
OCLC Number: 61278673
Awards: Winner of Society for the History of Technology Sally Haker Prize 2009.
Description: xiv, 282 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: David E. Nye.

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Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that clarify what technology is and why it matters.  Read more...

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"Provocative... Nye's mission in this anecdote-rich, briskly analytical, and indignation-arousing overview is to make us think more critically about the boons and banes of technology and make our Read more...

 
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