Human-Built World. How To Think About Technology and Culture. - HUGHES, THOMAS P.
How to Think about Technology and Culture (science * culture)
KORTE INHOUD
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 th...
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2004Uitgever: University Of Chicago Press240 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226359336ISBN-13: 9780226359335Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards, yellow lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: xij, 224pp. Very fine copy - as new. Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2004 [Auteur: HUGHES, THOMAS P.] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Human-Built World. How To Think About Technology and Culture.]
