Techno-Human Condition

Name: Techno-Human Condition
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ISBN: 9780262525251

ISBN-10: 0262525259

ISBN-13: 9780262525251

Edition: 2011

Authors: Braden R. Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz

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In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitzexplore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escapethe shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintaina commitment to fundamental human values.Humans have been co-evolving with their technologies sincethe dawn of prehistory. What is different now is that we have moved beyond external technologicalinterventions to transform ourselves from the inside out -- even as we also remake the Earth systemitself. Coping with this new reality, say…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Braden R. Allenby is Founding Director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering andManagement, Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Professor of Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering at Arizona State University. He is the author of Reconstructing Earth:Technology and Environment in the Age of Humans.