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This page contains all of the posts and discussion on MemeStreams referencing the following web page: Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture. You can find discussions on MemeStreams as you surf the web, even if you aren't a MemeStreams member, using the Threads Bookmarklet.

Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
by Jeremy at 1:05 am EDT, Jun 15, 2004

America's foremost historian of technology delivers the goods. A must-read.

To most Americans, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens.

In Human-Built World, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential.

Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered.


 
 
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