Technology matters questions to live with - Nye, David E., 1946-; ebrary, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Technology -- Philosophy; Technology and civilization; Electronic books