Devices of the Soul Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines

Name: Devices of the Soul Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
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ISBN: 9780596526801

ISBN-10: 0596526806

ISBN-13: 9780596526801

Edition: 2007

Authors: Steve Talbott

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In this deeply thoughtful work, the author reviews our technological dreams of improvement and destruction, finding both possibilities where others see only one or the other. His tour of the technical landscape leads from Odysseus' wonderful technological deceits to the world of the blind and mentally handicapped; from the technical marvels of the Amazonian blow-gun to the wholesale re-engineering of organisms through genetic engineering; from computers as substitutes for teachers, students, and schools, to the paradoxical role of technology in distancing us from the natural world - so that, if we are willing, we can learn to love this world and master the technology that increasingly…

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/22/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 287
Size: 5.50" wide x 6.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254



Introduction


Credits



Technology, Nature, and the Human Prospect



The Deceiving Virtues of Technology



Hold a Blossom to the Light



Toward an Ecological Conversation



Extraordinary Lives



Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?



The Many Voices of Destiny



On Forgetting to Wear Boots



From Information to Education



Why Is the Moon Getting Farther Away?



Failure to Connect



Educational Provocations



Three Notes: On Baby Walkers,Video Games, and Sex



Who's Killing Higher Education?(Or Is It Suicide?)


viDevices of the Soul



On Socializing Our Machines



Conversing with Ella



Flesh and Machines: The MereAssertions of Rodney Brooks



From HAL to Kismet



Invisible Tools or Emotionally Supportive Pals?



On Mechanizing Society 199



Evil



The Threat of Technology That Works Well



The Ideal of Ubiquitous Technology



Privacy in an Age of Data



A Taste for Number Magic



The Internet: Reflections on OurPresent Discontents


Bibliography


Index