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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... scientists on a continent - wide basis . The movement toward standardization of scientific discourse resulted , for example , in uniform mathematical symbols , including the replacement of Roman with Arabic numerals . Galileo's and ...
... scientists on a continent - wide basis . The movement toward standardization of scientific discourse resulted , for example , in uniform mathematical symbols , including the replacement of Roman with Arabic numerals . Galileo's and ...
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... scientist . You are acting as a rational person , to which condition many people who are not scientists may make a just claim . Scientists do strive to be empirical and where possible pre- cise , but it is also basic to their enterprise ...
... scientist . You are acting as a rational person , to which condition many people who are not scientists may make a just claim . Scientists do strive to be empirical and where possible pre- cise , but it is also basic to their enterprise ...
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... scientist to abjure in his or her role as a scientist such moral judgments or claims . When natural scientists speak out on moral questions , on what is good or evil to do , they speak as the rest of us - as concerned citizens on a ...
... scientist to abjure in his or her role as a scientist such moral judgments or claims . When natural scientists speak out on moral questions , on what is good or evil to do , they speak as the rest of us - as concerned citizens on a ...
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The Judgment of Thamus | 3 |
From Tools to Technocracy | 21 |
From Technocracy to Technopoly | 40 |
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