Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

Brand: Knopf

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UPC:
9780679425632
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
5/7/1996
Release Date:
5/7/1996
Author:
Edward Tenner
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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Product Overview

In this fascinating book, historian of science Edward Tenner takes a fine-toothed comb to several realms of technological intervention and discovers a resolute pattern of revenge effects, paradoxical, ironic consequences of the step s we take supposedly to improve our lives. Whether proliferating technology is fated to lead us to utopia, we can be certain that it has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.