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Author Nye, David E., 1946-

Title Technology matters : questions to live with / David E. Nye
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index
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Subject Technology -- Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Technology and civilization
Technology -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262280846
0262280841
1423774566
9781423774563