Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences Paperback - 1997
by Edward Tenner
If computers really eliminate paperwork, why are the office recycling bins always overflowing? Why are the lines at ATMs often longer than the ones inside the bank? Anyone who has ever pondered these questions will delight in Edward Tenner's book, a perceptive, provocative, and wryly funny look at the frustrating "revenge effects" of our most vaunted technologies.
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One of industrial and postindustrial humanity's parennial nightmares is the machine that passes from stubbornness to rebellion.
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In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects"--the unintended consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed modern age. Tenner shows why our confidence in technological solutions may be misplaced, and explores ways in which we can better survive in a world where despite technology's advances--and often because of them--"reality is always gaining on us." For anyone hoping to understand the ways in which society and technology interact, Why Things Bite Back is indispensable reading. "A bracing critique of technological determinism in both its utopian and dystopian forms...No one who wants to think clearly about our high-tech future can afford to ignore this book."--Jackson Lears, "Wilson Quarterly
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- Title Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
- Author Edward Tenner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date September 2, 1997
- ISBN 9780679747567 / 0679747567
- Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.94 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.39 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Technology - Social aspects, Technology - Economic aspects
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.48
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- Publishers Weekly, 06/09/1997, Page 0
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