- Published: 24 August 2007
- ISBN: 9780262640671
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $39.99
Technology Matters
Questions to Live With
- Published: 24 August 2007
- ISBN: 9780262640671
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- RRP: $39.99
Provocative...Nye's mission in this anecdote-rich, briskly analytical, and indignation-arousing overview is to make us think more critically about the boons and banes of technology and make our views known.—Donna Seaman— Nye's book addresses many of the issues and debates surrounding our highly textured technological society, and these are reflected in the questions he asks. Does technology control us? Does it lead to cultural uniformity or diversity? To sustainable abundance or to ecological crisis? To more security or escalating danger? The book is rich in examples, is easily readable and is short enough to be recommended for a day's read. —Nature— The incessant march of technology's evolution is the subject of David Nye's very readable book. It is written in the form of questions and expansive answers, with read like a primer (if not a discursive catechism) on what historians of technology have been thinking about over the half-century or so since their field was formalized. One of the striking effects of Nye's treatment is that it leads the reader to the incontrovertible conclusion that the answers to questions about technology evolve no less than technology itself. This is hardly surprising: thinking and writing about technology can be as creative a pursuit as inventing. —New Scientist—