Image doesn’t existsby Jacques Ellul
The author argues that “an easily distracted consumer society is caught up in a rapidly developing, uncontrollable technological system. . . . Everyproblem generates a technological solution; computers breed ever larger, morefragile, and vulnerable systems. But the solutions raise more and greater problems than they solve. . . . Responsibility, contemplation, civility, and spirituality suffer.” (Choice)
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- Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change (Inside Technology)
- The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
- The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche (Digital Futures)
- Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
- Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism
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by Bob Garfield (Isbn-13: 9780984065103)
What happens when the old world order collapses and the Brave New World is unprepared to replace it as an ad medium, as a news source, as a political soapbox, a channel for new episodes of Lost? Welcome to The Chaos Scenario. It's here, and Bob Garfield saw it coming. In his roles as Advertising Age editor-at-large and as co-host of NPR's On the Media, Bob Garfield long ago connected dots that many in media and marketing refused even to acknowledge. In this fascinating, terrifying, instructive and...
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