Technology matters [electronic resource] : questions to live with / David E. Nye.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 282 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 22
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  • T14 .N88 2006eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index.

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.

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