The techno-human condition / Braden Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz.

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Main Author: Allenby, Braden R.
Contributors: Sarewitz, Daniel R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.