Screen LibraryThe techno-human condition
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, MA |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 222 p.: ill. ; 21 cm. |
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9780262015691 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262015692 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | T |
| CLC: | T-05 |
| Call Number: | T-05/A432 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index. Prologue: what a long, transhuman trip it has already been -- In the cause-and-effect zone -- Level I and II technology : effectiveness, progress, and complexity -- Level III technology : radical contingency in earth systems -- Individuality and incomprehensibility -- Complexity, coherence, contingency -- Killer apps -- In front of our nose. "In this latest version of humanity, we are equipped with a fully re-engineered immune system; the latest set of cultural assumptions about gender, ethnicity, and sexuality; and a suite of customized enhancements, including artificial joints, neurochemical mood modulators, and performance-boosting hormones. 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 |