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Technology Matters : Questions to Live With.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262280846
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technology MattersDDC classification:
  • 303.48/3
LOC classification:
  • T14.N88 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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.
Summary: Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 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.

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

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