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Technology

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Technology

By Eric Schatzberg

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everything from steelmaking to singing. In Technology: Critical History of a Concept, Eric Schatzberg explains why technology is so difficult to define by examining its three thousand year history, one shaped by persistent tensions between scholars and techni...Show more

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ISBN

9780226583839

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Technology

Format

Hardcover

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