Caught in the Current Searching for Simplicity in the Technological Age

Name: Caught in the Current Searching for Simplicity in the Technological Age
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ISBN: 9780312309251

ISBN-10: 0312309252

ISBN-13: 9780312309251

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Jay Bookman

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Science tells us what is. Technology tells us what can be. But neither can tell us what ought to be. As a science and technology journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jay Bookman has witnessed some of the most remarkable and exciting advances in human history-supercomputers, cyborgs, genetic engineering. Like the rest of us, though, he has also watched as ever-more sophisticated tools intended to make our lives easier and less stressful have often done the opposite. The problem, he says, lies not in our tools, but in ourselves. In Caught in the Current, Bookman and four friends embark on their annual rafting trip down the Deschutes River in central Oregon. Leaving cell phones,…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.70" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English