Our Own Devices - How Technology Remakes Humanity

Edward Tenner

Vintage

2004

336 páginas

11h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780375407222

In Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, Edward Tenner (2004) looks at how we sit, stand, walk, and communicate, and how these elementary human behaviors have changed as a result of the things we make. But Tenner also examines the converse: how the way we sit, stand, walk, and communicate affects technology. Tenner includes the economic perspective, examining the question, "Why were men and women of one time and place willing to pay for proliferating variety, while not in another time and place?" (p. x). As a result, this book is really an examination of the "ceaseless interplay of technology, economics and values" (p. ix).