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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... human being is . All of this may seem obvious enough , but the metaphor of the machine as human ( or the human as machine ) is sufficiently powerful to have made serious inroads in everyday language . People now commonly speak of ...
... human being is . All of this may seem obvious enough , but the metaphor of the machine as human ( or the human as machine ) is sufficiently powerful to have made serious inroads in everyday language . People now commonly speak of ...
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... human progress . And it has done so by advancing several interconnected ideas . It has , as already noted , amplified beyond all reason the metaphor of machines as humans and humans as machines . I do not claim , by the way , that ...
... human progress . And it has done so by advancing several interconnected ideas . It has , as already noted , amplified beyond all reason the metaphor of machines as humans and humans as machines . I do not claim , by the way , that ...
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... human decisions and actions , such as writing or reading this book or forming a new government or conversing at dinner or falling in love . These events are a function of human intelligence interacting with environment , and although ...
... human decisions and actions , such as writing or reading this book or forming a new government or conversing at dinner or falling in love . These events are a function of human intelligence interacting with environment , and although ...
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From Tools to Technocracy | 21 |
From Technocracy to Technopoly | 40 |
The Improbable World | 56 |
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