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Equipping James Bond - Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm (Hardcover)
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Equipping James Bond - Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm (Hardcover)
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James Bond's amazing gadgets reveal both enthusiasm about
technology and fear of its potential ramifications. The popularity
of the 007 franchise depends on a seductive formula of sex,
violence, and snobbery. Much of its appeal, too, lies in its
gadgets: slick, somewhat improbable technological devices that give
everyone's favorite secret agent the edge over his adversaries. In
Equipping James Bond, Andre Millard chronicles a hundred-year
history of espionage technology through the lens of Ian Fleming's
infamous character and his ingenious spyware. Beginning with the
creation of MI6, the British secret service, Millard traces the
development of espionage technology from the advanced weaponry of
the nineteenth century to the evolving threat of computer hacking
and surveillance. Arguing that the gadgets in the books and films
articulate the leading edge of technological awareness at the time,
Millard describes how Bond goes from protecting 1950s England from
criminal activity to saving a world threatened by nuclear bombs,
poison gas, and attacks from space. As a modern and modernizing
hero, Bond has to keep up with the times. His film franchise is
committed to equipping both Bond and his adversaries with the
latest technological gadgets. Simultaneously, Millard stresses, the
villains and threats that Bond faces embody contemporary fears
about the downside of technological change. Taking a wide-ranging
look at factual (and fictional) technology, Millard views the James
Bond universe as evidence for popular perceptions of technological
development as both inevitably progressive and apocalyptically
threatening.
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