Technology And Culture
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Technology And Culture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Technology And Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Technology categories.
Perspectives On Technology And Culture
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Author : Egbert Schuarman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Perspectives On Technology And Culture written by Egbert Schuarman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
The Culture Of Technology
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Author : Arnold Pacey
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1985-09-10
The Culture Of Technology written by Arnold Pacey and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-09-10 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Culture of Technology examines our often conflicting attitudes toward nuclear weapons, biological technologies, pollution, Third World development, automation, social medicine, and industrial decline. It disputes the common idea that technology is "value-free" and shows that its development and use are conditioned by many factors-political and cultural as well as economic and scientific. Many examples from a variety of cultures are presented. These range from the impact of snowmobiles in North America to the use of water pumps in rural India, and from homemade toys in Africa to electricity generation in Britain-all showing how the complex interaction of many influences in every community affects technological practice. Arnold Pacey, who lives near Oxford, England, has a degree in physics and has lectured on both the history of technology and technology policy, with a particular focus on the development of technologies appropriate to Third World needs. He is the author of The Maze of Ingenuity (MIT Press paperback).
Culture Technology
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Author : Jennifer Daryl Slack
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
Culture Technology written by Jennifer Daryl Slack and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Culture + Technology is an essential guide to the fascinating history of these debates, and offers new perspectives that give readers the tools they need to make informed decisions about the role of technology in our lives. In clear and compelling language, Slack and Wise untangle and expose the cultural assumptions that underlie our thinking about technology, stories so deeply held we often don't recognize their influence. The book considers the perceived inevitability of technological advance and our myths about progress. It also looks at sources of resistance to these stories from the Luddites of the 19th century to the Unabomber in our own time. Slack and Wise help readers sift through the confusions about culture and technology that arise in their own everyday lives."--BOOK JACKET.
Leonardo To The Internet
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Author : Thomas J. Misa
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2011-05-16
Leonardo To The Internet written by Thomas J. Misa and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with Science categories.
Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped -- and have been shaped by -- the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this compelling work evaluates what Misa calls "the question of technology." Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by examining how today's unsustainable energy systems, insecure information networks, and vulnerable global shipping have helped foster geopolitical risks and instability. A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world. Praise for the first edition "Closely reasoned, reflective, and written with insight, grace, and wit, Misa's book takes us on a personal tour of technology and history, seeking to define and analyze paradigmatic techno-cultural eras." -- Technology and Culture "Follows [Thomas] Hughes's model of combining an engaging historical narrative with deeper lessons about technology." -- American Scholar "His case studies, such as that of Italian futurism or the localizations of the global McDonalds, provide good starting points for thought and discussion." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This review cannot do justice to the precision and grace with which Misa analyzes technologies in their social contexts. He convincingly demonstrates the usefulness of his conceptual model." -- History and Technology "A fascinating, informative, and well-illustrated book." -- Choice
Human Built World
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Author : Thomas P. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2004-07-19
Human Built World written by Thomas P. Hughes and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.
Technology And Culture
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Author : Allen Batteau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Technology And Culture written by Allen Batteau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Technology categories.
"Technology and Culture provides a comprehensive overview of anthropological and other theories examining the place of technology in culture, and the consequences of technology for cultural evolution. The book develops and contrasts anthropological discourse of technology and culture with humanistic and managerial views. It uses core anthropological concepts, including adaptation, evolution, totemic identity, and collective representations, to locate a board variety of technologies, ancient and modern, in a context of shared understandings and misunderstandings. The author draws on his own experience as an auto mechanic, computer programmer, ethnographer and aircraft pilot to demonstrate that technologies are cultural creations, encoding and accelerating the dreams and delusions of the societies that produce them." --Book Jacket.
Hidden Hands
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Author : Phil Mizen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Hidden Hands written by Phil Mizen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Child labor categories.
Technology And Culture In A European Context
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Author : J.Orstrom Moller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-01
Technology And Culture In A European Context written by J.Orstrom Moller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01 with categories.
Living In A Technological Culture
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Author : Mary Tiles
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Living In A Technological Culture written by Mary Tiles and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Philosophy categories.
Challenging traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between "man and machine" this book opens up wider debate on the shape of things to come and whether we should be trying to change them now.