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

By: Nye, David E, 1946-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006Description: xiv, 282 p. ; 21 cm.Subject(s): Technology -- Philosophy | Technology and civilizationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.48/3 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.