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- Book Title
- Technology Matters : Questions to Live with
- Publication Name
- Technology Matters
- Title
- Technology Matters
- Subtitle
- Questions to Live With
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 0262640678
- EAN
- 9780262640671
- ISBN
- 9780262640671
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering
- Release Date
- 24/08/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Topic
- Social Aspects, History
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters. Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing new tools for more elegant solutions to old tasks. Perhaps this is because we are intimate with devices and machines from an early age--as children, we play with technological toys: trucks, cars, stoves, telephones, model railroads, Playstations. Through these machines we imagine ourselves into a creative relationship with the world. As adults, we retain this technological playfulness with gadgets and appliances--Blackberries, cell phones, GPS navigation systems in our cars. We use technology to shape our world, yet we think little about the choices we are making. In Technology Matters , Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical examples from many societies. He asks: Can we define technology? Does technology shape us, or do we shape it? Is technology inevitable or unpredictable? (Why do experts often fail to get it right?)? How do historians understand it? Are we using modern technology to create cultural uniformity, or diversity? To create abundance, or an ecological crisis? To destroy jobs or create new opportunities? Should "the market" choose our technologies? Do advanced technologies make us more secure, or escalate dangers? Does ubiquitous technology expand our mental horizons, or encapsulate us in artifice? These large questions may have no final answers yet, but we need to wrestle with them--to live them, so that we may, as Rilke puts it, "live along some distant day into the answers."
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262640678
ISBN-13
9780262640671
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59949353
Product Key Features
Book Title
Technology Matters : Questions to Live with
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Social Aspects, History
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Technology & Engineering
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
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T14.N88 2007
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College Graduate Student
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"The incessant march of technology's evolution is the subject of David Nye's veryreadable book. It is written in the form of questions and expansive answers, with read like a primer(if not a discursive catechism) on what historians of technology have been thinking about over thehalf-century or so since their field was formalized. One of the striking effects of Nye's treatmentis that it leads the reader to the incontrovertible conclusion that the answers to questions abouttechnology evolve no less than technology itself. This is hardly surprising: thinking and writingabout technology can be as creative a pursuit as inventing." NewScientist, "Nye's book addresses many of the issues and debates surrounding our highly textured technological society, and these are reflected in the questions he asks. Does technology control us? Does it lead to cultural uniformity or diversity? To sustainable abundance or to ecological crisis? To more security or escalating danger? The book is rich in examples, is easily readable and is short enough to be recommended for a day's read." Nature, " "Technology Matters" provides a scintillating and sweeping assessment of how technology and culture have shaped one another over time and how humanity's future will be shaped by the choices we make today. Nye's latest analysis of the reciprocal interplay of technology and culture extends his more academic work to a broader audience and does so in a clear and engaging manner." --Jeffrey K. Stine, National Museum of American History, "Provocative.... Nye's mission in this anecdote-rich, briskly analytical, and indignation-arousing overview is to make us think more critically about the boons and banes of technology and make our views known." Donna Seaman Speakeasy, Nye's book addresses many of the issues and debates surrounding our highly textured technological society, and these are reflected in the questions he asks. Does technology control us? Does it lead to cultural uniformity or diversity? To sustainable abundance or to ecological crisis? To more security or escalating danger? The book is rich in examples, is easily readable and is short enough to be recommended for a day's read., "Technology Mattersprovides a scintillating and sweeping assessment of how technology and culture have shaped one another over time and how humanity's future will be shaped by the choices we make today. Nye's latest analysis of the reciprocal interplay of technology and culture extends his more academic work to a broader audience and does so in a clear and engaging manner." -Jeffrey K. Stine, National Museum of American History, "Nye's book addresses many of the issues and debates surrounding our highly texturedtechnological society, and these are reflected in the questions he asks. Does technology control us?Does it lead to cultural uniformity or diversity? To sustainable abundance or to ecological crisis?To more security or escalating danger? The book is rich in examples, is easily readable and is shortenough to be recommended for a day's read." Nature, & " Provocative.... Nye's mission in this anecdote-rich, briskly analytical, and indignation-arousing overview is to make us think more critically about the boons and banes of technology and make our views known.& " -- Donna Seaman, Speakeasy, "Provocative.... Nye's mission in this anecdote-rich, briskly analytical, andindignation-arousing overview is to make us think more critically about the boons and banes oftechnology and make our views known." Donna Seaman Speakeasy, The incessant march of technology's evolution is the subject of David Nye's very readable book. It is written in the form of questions and expansive answers, with read like a primer (if not a discursive catechism) on what historians of technology have been thinking about over the half-century or so since their field was formalized. One of the striking effects of Nye's treatment is that it leads the reader to the incontrovertible conclusion that the answers to questions about technology evolve no less than technology itself. This is hardly surprising: thinking and writing about technology can be as creative a pursuit as inventing., "The incessant march of technology's evolution is the subject of David Nye's very readable book. It is written in the form of questions and expansive answers, with read like a primer (if not a discursive catechism) on what historians of technology have been thinking about over the half-century or so since their field was formalized. One of the striking effects of Nye's treatment is that it leads the reader to the incontrovertible conclusion that the answers to questions about technology evolve no less than technology itself. This is hardly surprising: thinking and writing about technology can be as creative a pursuit as inventing." -- "New Scientist", & " A deeply informed historian who writes with impressive clarity, David Nye persuades us in Technology Matters that we should ask the kind of life-shaping questions about technology that we customarily pose about politics and economics. He does not finally answer the timely questions that he explicates, but provokes us to search for our own answers.& " -- Thomas P. Hughes, author of Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture, "In the field of technology studies, David Nye stands out for his ability to distill complex issues into concise frameworks. This book masterfully crystallizes debates about the social and cultural impact of technology into ten questions that in their very asking demonstrate how philosophical concerns about technology are, as always, concerns about ourselves." --Marita Sturken, Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, --Arthur Molella, Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution, "The incessant march of technology's evolution is the subject of David Nye's very readable book. It is written in the form of questions and expansive answers, with read like a primer (if not a discursive catechism) on what historians of technology have been thinking about over the half-century or so since their field was formalized. One of the striking effects of Nye's treatment is that it leads the reader to the incontrovertible conclusion that the answers to questions about technology evolve no less than technology itself. This is hardly surprising: thinking and writing about technology can be as creative a pursuit as inventing." New Scientist, "Applying the lessons of history to modern-day dilemmas, Nye defies much common wisdom about the power of technology in society. With irony and wit, he exhorts us not to succumb to defeatist notions of technological determinism but to take charge of our own human destinies." --Arthur Molella, Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution, Provocative...Nye's mission in this anecdote-rich, briskly analytical, and indignation-arousing overview is to make us think more critically about the boons and banes of technology and make our views known.
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2006
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