Technology matters questions to live with /

Nye, David E., 1946-

Technology matters questions to live with / [electronic resource] : David E. Nye. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006. - xiv, 282 p.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Technology--Philosophy.
Technology and civilization.


Electronic books.

T14 / .N88 2006

303.48/3