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The techno-human condition / Braden Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]Description: xi, 222 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262525251
- 0262525259
- T14.5 .A437 2013
Contents:
Subject: A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.
Prologue: what a long, transhuman trip it has already been --
In the cause-and-effect zone --
Level I and II technology : effectiveness, progress, and complexity --
Level III technology : radical contingency in earth systems --
Individuality and incomprehensibility --
Complexity, coherence, contingency --
Killer apps --
In front of our nose.
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Originally published: 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-216) and index.
Prologue: what a long, transhuman trip it has already been --
In the cause-and-effect zone --
Level I and II technology : effectiveness, progress, and complexity --
Level III technology : radical contingency in earth systems --
Individuality and incomprehensibility --
Complexity, coherence, contingency --
Killer apps --
In front of our nose.
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.
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