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

By: Nye, David E, 1946-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006Description: xiv, 282 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780262640671 (pbk.); 0262640678 (pbk.)Subject(s): Technology -- Philosophy | Technology and civilizationDDC classification: 303.483 LOC classification: T14 | .N94 2006Version électronique également disponible sur Internet.
Contents:
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.
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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index.

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."--Jacket.

Version électronique également disponible sur Internet.

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