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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... statistics . Statistics makes possible new perceptions and realities by making visible large - scale patterns . Its uses in science are too well known to warrant notice here , except to remark that if , as the physicists tell us , the ...
... statistics . Statistics makes possible new perceptions and realities by making visible large - scale patterns . Its uses in science are too well known to warrant notice here , except to remark that if , as the physicists tell us , the ...
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... statistics , we can never be sure what sort of nonsense will lodge in people's heads . The only plausible answer to the question why we use statis- tics for such measurements is that it is done for sociopolitical reasons whose essential ...
... statistics , we can never be sure what sort of nonsense will lodge in people's heads . The only plausible answer to the question why we use statis- tics for such measurements is that it is done for sociopolitical reasons whose essential ...
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... statistics and computers are joined , volumes of garbage are generated in public discourse . Those who have watched television sports programs will know that Mankoff's cartoon is , in fact , less of a parody than a documentary . Useless ...
... statistics and computers are joined , volumes of garbage are generated in public discourse . Those who have watched television sports programs will know that Mankoff's cartoon is , in fact , less of a parody than a documentary . Useless ...
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The Judgment of Thamus | 3 |
From Tools to Technocracy | 21 |
From Technocracy to Technopoly | 40 |
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