Technology matters : questions to live with / / David E. Nye
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| Autore: |
Nye David E. <1946->
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| Titolo: |
Technology matters : questions to live with / / David E. Nye
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | xiv, 282 p |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technology - Philosophy |
| Technology and civilization | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Technology matters |
| ISBN: | 0-262-28084-1 |
| 1-282-09758-X | |
| 9786612097584 | |
| 1-4237-7456-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821642603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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