Technology as a Human Affair
Author | : Larry A. Hickman |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Larry A. Hickman |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Larry Hickman |
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Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Larry Hickman |
Publisher | : Mosby |
Total Pages | : 617 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology |
ISBN | : 9780801621642 |
Author | : Calestous Juma |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0190467037 |
New technologies may be heralded as life-changing innovations or feared as risks to moral values, human health, and environmental safety. Anxieties surrounding technology are often heightened by perceptions that their benefits will accrue to small sections of society while the risks are more widely distributed. Innovation and Its Enemies identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order and stability as one of today's biggest policy challenges. It looks at a number of historical examples, including coffee, electricity, margarine, farm mechanization, recorded music, transgenic crops and transgenic animals, to show how new technologies emerge, take root and create new institutional ecologies that favor their dominance in the marketplace.
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Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Thunderstorms |
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Author | : Abbe Mowshowitz |
Publisher | : Reading, Mass. ; Don Mills, Ont. : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Computers and civilization |
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Author | : Will Schutz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Gary Hugh Calabrese |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Alienation (Social psychology) |
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Author | : John Troyer |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262542315 |
“One of our greatest thinkers” on death presents a radical new approach to thinking about dying and the human corpse (Caitlin Doughty, mortician and bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes). A fascinating exploration of the relationship between technology and the human corpse throughout history—from 19th-century embalming machines to 21st-century death-prevention technologies. Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination—not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways. Troyer explains, for example, how technologies of the nineteenth century including embalming and photography, created our image of a dead body as quasi-atemporal, existing outside biological limits formerly enforced by decomposition. He describes the “Happy Death Movement” of the 1970s; the politics of HIV/AIDS corpse and the productive potential of the dead body; the provocations of the Body Worlds exhibits and their use of preserved dead bodies; the black market in human body parts; and the transformation of historic technologies of the human corpse into “death prevention technologies.” The consequences of total control over death and the dead body, Troyer argues, are not liberation but the abandonment of Homo sapiens as a concept and a species. In this unique work, Troyer forces us to consider the increasing overlap between politics, dying, and the dead body in both general and specifically personal terms.
Author | : Klaus Schwab |
Publisher | : Currency |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1524758876 |
World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.