The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time.—David Dickson, New York Times Book...
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The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time.—David Dickson, New York Times Book Review"The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day."—Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226902111 (0226902110)
Publish date: January 15th 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 214
Edition language: English
Winner discusses technology as a social force and actor, rather than just a product or a source of social phenomena. Among other subjects, he covers the rise and fall of environmentalism in the 60s and 70s and describes how it seems to have been absorbed into consumer culture through products aimed ...
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