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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... mechanical clock ? The clock had its origin in the Benedictine monasteries of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . The impetus behind the invention was to provide a more or less precise regularity to the routines of the monasteries ...
... mechanical clock ? The clock had its origin in the Benedictine monasteries of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . The impetus behind the invention was to provide a more or less precise regularity to the routines of the monasteries ...
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... mechanical parts that function as the original did without impairing or even affecting any other part of the machine . Of course , to some degree that assumption works , but since a human being is in fact not a machine but a biological ...
... mechanical parts that function as the original did without impairing or even affecting any other part of the machine . Of course , to some degree that assumption works , but since a human being is in fact not a machine but a biological ...
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... mechanical , biological , and electronic engineering made possible by the consistent applica- tion of the aims , assumptions , and procedures of natural science . These successes have attached to the name of science an awe- some measure ...
... mechanical , biological , and electronic engineering made possible by the consistent applica- tion of the aims , assumptions , and procedures of natural science . These successes have attached to the name of science an awe- some measure ...
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From Tools to Technocracy | 21 |
From Technocracy to Technopoly | 40 |
The Improbable World | 56 |
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