[Ebook pdf] Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology
♛ Edward Tenner ♛
| #3488376 in Books | 2003-06-03 | 2003-06-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.53 x1.20 x6.61l, | File Name: 0375407227 | 336 pages
||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| How Technology Insidiously Transforms Us|By Robert I. Hedges|"Why Things Bite Back" stands as one of my favorite books, and is definitely the best single volume available on the unintended consequences of technology. I was, of course, eager to read Edward Tenner's "Our Own Devices," a volume more focused on the historical adaptations of a select few technologies and man's co-e|From Publishers Weekly|Marshall McLuhan once described media as an extension of the central nervous system. Tenner, a Princeton scholar and author (Why Things Bite Back), whose work might best be described as an anthropological history of science, extends the m
From the author of Why Things Bite Back– which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology–Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us, position us, or enhance our performance.
In helping and hurting us, these body technologies have produced consequences that their makers never intended: • In postwar Japan traditional sandals gave way to Western-style shoes because t...
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