UID:
almafu_9959239290702883
Format:
1 online resource (352 p.)
ISBN:
1-136-72932-1
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0-415-94939-4
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1-315-02440-3
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1-136-72925-9
Content:
Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative, enterprising human spirit; and only by becoming hybrids, combining the human and the technological, will we be able to make effective use of our scientific and technological achievements.〈br〉〈br〉This broad cultural history of technology and science provides a rang
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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The roots of technoscience. The scientific reformation in early modern Europe ; The industrial transformation ; The sites of enlightenment and innovation -- The machine in the mind. Technocrats and their critics ; Eastern minds take on the Western juggernaut ; Artistic appropriations from Morris to The Matrix -- Machines and knowledge in action. Mobility mania and its material manifestations ; The cultural forms of communication and information ; Public works, public health, and personal hygiene -- Coping with technoscience. Making technoscience politically accountable ; From appropriate technology to green business ; Conclusions: history as cultural assessment.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-94938-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-86658-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315024400
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