Culture of Technology

Name: Culture of Technology
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ISBN: 9780262660563

ISBN-10: 0262660563

ISBN-13: 9780262660563

Edition: 1985

Authors: Arnold Pacey

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The Culture of Technology examines our often conflicting attitudes toward nuclear weapons, biological technologies, pollution, Third World development, automation, social medicine, and industrial decline. It disputes the common idea that technology is "value-free" and shows that its development and use are conditioned by many factors-political and cultural as well as economic and scientific. Many examples from a variety of cultures are presented. These range from the impact of snowmobiles in North America to the use of water pumps in rural India, and from homemade toys in Africa to electricity generation in Britain-all showing how the complex interaction of many influences in every…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/10/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Arnold Pacey is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University,Britain. He is the author of The Culture of Technology (MITPress, 1983), Technology and World Civilization (MIT Press,1991), and The Maze of Ingenuity, second edition (MIT Press,1992).