Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to TechnologyKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 31 de mar. de 1993 - 240 páginas A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death. "A provocative book ... A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth. |
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... never overjoyed . Here , for example , is Freud on the matter , from his doleful Civilization and Its Discontents : One would like to ask : is there , then , no positive gain in pleasure , no unequivocal increase in my feeling of happi ...
... never overjoyed . Here , for example , is Freud on the matter , from his doleful Civilization and Its Discontents : One would like to ask : is there , then , no positive gain in pleasure , no unequivocal increase in my feeling of happi ...
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... never have left his native town and I should need no telephone to hear his voice ; if travelling across the ocean by ship had not been introduced , my friend would not have embarked on his sea - voyage and I should not need a cable to ...
... never have left his native town and I should need no telephone to hear his voice ; if travelling across the ocean by ship had not been introduced , my friend would not have embarked on his sea - voyage and I should not need a cable to ...
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... never finished his invention and started work on a more ambitious machine , capable of doing more complex tasks . He abandoned that as well , and in 1833 put aside his calculator project completely in favor of a programmable machine ...
... never finished his invention and started work on a more ambitious machine , capable of doing more complex tasks . He abandoned that as well , and in 1833 put aside his calculator project completely in favor of a programmable machine ...
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The Judgment of Thamus | 3 |
From Tools to Technocracy | 21 |
From Technocracy to Technopoly | 40 |
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