The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

Winner, Langdon

ISBN 10: 0226902110 / ISBN 13: 9780226902111

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1989

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Synopsis:

"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."—David 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."—Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis

About the Author:

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for ...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good