Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human World - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard RhodesSeries:Machines, Systems and the Human WorldPublish date:2000-12-07Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780684863115ISBN-10:684863111UPC:9780684863115Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Aspects, History, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.55 x 5.49 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SC4P3V939F
Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate about Machines Systems and the Human World
Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth. Does technology improve us or diminish us? Enslave us or make us free? With this first-ever...
Series: Machines, Systems and the Human World
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780684863115ISBN-10:684863111UPC:9780684863115Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Aspects, History, Philosophy & Social AspectsSize:8.55 x 5.49 x 1.04 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SC4P3V939F
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent...
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