A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of
incomprehensible technological complexity and change. In The
Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore
what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible
technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to
have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to
escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality,
progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to
fundamental human values. Humans have been co-evolving with their
technologies since the dawn of prehistory. What is different now is
that we have moved beyond external technological interventions to
transform ourselves from the inside out-even as we also remake the
Earth system itself. Coping with this new reality, say Allenby and
Sarewitz, means liberating ourselves from such categories as
"human," "technological," and "natural" to embrace a new
techno-human relationship. Contributors Boris Barbour, Mario
Biagioli, Paul S. Brookes, Finn Brunton, Alex Csiszar, Alessandro
Delfanti, Emmanuel Didier, Sarah de Rijcke, Daniele Fanelli, Yves
Gingras, James R. Griesemer, Catherine Guaspare, Marie-Andree
Jacob, Barbara M. Kehm, Cyril Labbe, Jennifer Lin, Alexandra
Lippman, Burkhard Morganstern, Ivan Oransky, Michael Power, Sergio
Sismondo, Brandon Stell, Tereza Stoeckelova, Elizabeth Wager, Paul
Wouters
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