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The Myths of Technology - Innovation and Inequality (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Myths of Technology - Innovation and Inequality (Hardcover, New edition)
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This book questions whether technologies are the rational,
tangible, scientific, forward-thinking, neutral objects they are so
often perceived to be, exploring instead how powerful, mythic ideas
about technologies drive our social understanding and our
expectations of them. Against a rising tide of information, we
encounter significant technological, scientific, and medical
advances which promise to create an educated, humane, and equal
world. This book explores that promise, deconstructing technologies
to conclude that though they do afford us significant and
empowering advances, they remain largely cloaked in mystery, and
often promise more than they can deliver. Contributors from diverse
intellectual backgrounds and political and epistemological stances
- spanning sociology and psychosocial investigations, innovation
studies, and scientists - combine philosophical inquiry and
empirical case studies to create a book which is at once
provocative, innovative, and exciting in the challenges it poses.
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