Our own devices : the past and future of body technology / Edward Tenner
- Bib ID:
- 950111
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tenner, Edward
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- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003
- xviii, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0375407227
- Summary:
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"Once we step on the treadmill of progress, it's hard to step off. Yet Edward Tenner shows that human ingenuity can be applied in self-preservation as well, and he sheds light on the ways in which the users of commonplace technology surprise designers and engineers, as when early typists developed the touch method still employed on today's keyboards. And he offers concrete advice for reaping benefits from the devices that we no longer seem able to live without. Although dependent on these objects, we can also use them to liberate ourselves. This instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner "the philosopher of everyday technology.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-304) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2003
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