The Technological Society, Paperback

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Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe Industrial Revolution that unfolded in Western societies at the dawn of the 19th ...

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A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In the twenty-first century, new technologies should l...

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A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialis...

We are in the heart of a fascinating era in human evolution, when technological progress is challenging the human role in work and society. Even in...

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America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place...

Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. - Includes letters and lec...

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Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) came to prominence as one of history's most famous madmen in the wake of Sigmund Freud's "Psychoanalytic Notes Upo...

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In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone...

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A concise explanation of all the elements that make up current British defence policy as it goes through a major transition to confront the technol...

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Written in the late 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFO's, Flying Saucers is the great psychologist's brilliantly prescient meditat...

In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and...

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Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophic...

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How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis--a cult classic now updated and reissued with a ne...

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A glimpse of just how dramatically our rapidly changing future will impact our children, family, business and society, including how we can avoid p...

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"Failure explores the deeply troubling paradox by which the more technological and financial systems fail us, the more dependent on them we become....

Reducere. Jacques Ellul, a former member of a Law Faculty at the University of Bordeaux, was recognized as a brilliant and penetrating commentator on the rel...

Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters,...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Pietro MontaniNumber of pages: 150Collection: AestheticsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 141 x 20...

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