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Thinking about Technology

Autor Gil Germain
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The world we make reflects the way reality is perceived, and today the world is perceived primarily in technological terms. So argues Gil Germain in Thinking About Technology: How the Technological Mind Misreads Reality. Given the connection between perception and action, or thinking and doing, Germain first highlights the central features of technological worldview to better understand the contemporary drive to master the conditions of human existence. He then boldly proposes that the technological worldview seriously misreads the nature of the world it seeks mastery over, and shows how this misinterpretation invariably leads to the technologically-related challenges currently vexing the contemporary social order, from the drift toward a posthuman future to the anti-globalization backlash. Germain closes Thinking About Technology by articulating an alternative worldview to the technological perspective and illustrating how this re-reading of reality might help us inhabit the technological landscape in ways better attuned to the human condition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498549554
ISBN-10: 1498549551
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Lexington Books

Notă biografică

Gil Germain is professor of political thought at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Descriere

This book illustrates the centrality of technological thought and action to today's world and offers a critique of technology as its dominant organizing principle. Germain exposes the flaw in the technological vision while suggesting ways to inhabit the technological landscape that befit our humanity.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Open and Shut Chapter 2: Thinking About Technology Chapter 3: The Problem with Technology Chapter 4: Evil and the Empire of Good Chapter 5: Hall of Mirrors Chapter 6: Our Faith Chapter 7: Thinking Past Technology Chapter 8: Living Among Things Chapter 9: Less Is More Bibliography About the Author