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

Por: Tipo de material: TextoTextoEditor: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006Descripción: xiv, 282 páginasTipo de contenido:
  • texto
Tipo de medio:
  • no mediado
Tipo de soporte:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 0262140934
  • 9780262140935
Tema(s): Clasificación CDD:
  • 303.483 N994t 2006
Contenidos:
_ Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Resumen: ´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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_ Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 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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