Description: Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by. Edward Tenner's Why Things Bite Back examines technology in medicine, agriculture and the environment, the computerized office, and sports. A historian of science at Princeton University, Tenner has provided a voluminously documented and illustrated account of the unintended consequences (called "revenge effects") of our technologies. "Technology demands more, not less, human work to function. And it introduces more subtle and insidious problems to replace acute ones. Nor are the acute ones eliminated. . . [I]n controlling the catastrophic problems we are exposing ourselves to even more elusive chronic ones that are even harder to address. . . . Our greater safety demands more and more vigilance. . . . I am not arguing against change, but for a modest, tentative, and skeptical acceptance of it" (p. xi). A revenge effect i
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Book Title: Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Item Length: 9.4in.
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Author: Edward Tenner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Social Aspects, Ecology
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science
Item Weight: 25.5 Oz
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
