The Whale and the Reactor : A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
ISBN: 9780226902098
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Chicago Press
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Subjects: Engineering; Engineering: General;

The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent ''philosophy of technology'' can expect to achieve at the present time.OCoDavid Dickson, "New York Times Book Review"
"The Whale and the Reactor" is the philosopher''s equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day.OCoRuth Schwartz Cowan, "Isis""

Langdon Winner is professor of political science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the author of Autonomous Technology.

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