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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777513903321
• Autore: Nye David E. <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-262-28084-1; 1-282-09758-X; 9786612097584; 1-4237-7456-6
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 282 p
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetti: Technology - Philosophy; Technology and civilization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.