Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
"55" Result
Sort By:
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
Shows how new, supposedly time-saving inventions have both increased the workload and improved the standard of living.
"Our ancestors saw the material world as alive, and they often personified nature. Today we claim to be realists. But in reality we are not paying attention to the symbols and myths hidden in technology. Beneath much of our talk about computers and the Internet, claims William A…
Technoculture
by Ross, Andrew, Penley, Constance
fromCultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.)
0
Type: Book
Annotation
Technological Change gathers together examples of the best current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the 'state of the art' in key a…
American Genesis is the story of America's love affair-and inextricable entaglement-with technology from 1870-1970, the greatest period of productivity the world has ever known.
"In Cyborgs & Citadels, some of this country's thinkers explore such questions as how science gains authority to direct truth practices (the "Citadel" problem), the boundaries between humans and machines, and how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashioning of …
