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Wise animals : how technology has made us what we are

Chatfield, Tom, 1980-2024
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'Wise Animals' explores the history of our relationship with technology, pointing out that we have been deeply involved with our creations from the first use of tools and the taming of fire, via the invention of reading and printing, to the development of the computer and the creation of the internet. Human children know no more of modern technology than their ancestors did of older technologies thousands of years ago, and develop in relation to the technologies of their time. We co-evolve with technology as individuals as we have as a species over thousands of years. The central message of this book is that we are neither masters nor victims of our technologies. They are part of who we are, and our future - and theirs - is in our hands.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 2024.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529079746 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
303.483
Language:
English
BRN:
2673270
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