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Technology matters : questions to live with

Author:David E. Nye

Summary:'Technology Matters' discusses, in nontechnical language, ten central questions about technology that aim to clarify what technology is and why it matters. This book addresses questions such as: can we define technology? Does technology shape us, or do we shape it? Is technology inevitable or unpredictable?

Print Book, English, 2007

Edition:First MIT Press paperback edition View all formats and editions

Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007

Physical Description:xiv, 282 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN:

9780262640671, 0262640678

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1018313897

Subjects:

Technologie Philosophie

Technologie et civilisation

Technology Philosophy

Technology and civilization

Contents:

1. Can we define "technology"

2. Does technology control us?

3. Is technology predictable?

4. How do historians understand technology?

5. Cultural uniformity, m or deversity?

6. Sustainable abundance, or ecological crisis?

7. Work: more, or less? better, or worse?

8. Should "the market" select technologies?

9. More security, or escalating dangers?

10. Expanding consciousness, or encapsulation?

11. Not just one future