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The Whale and the Reactor
A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition
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The Whale and the Reactor
A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition
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"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid."
First published to great acclaim in 1988, Langdon Winner's groundbreaking exploration of the political, social, and philosophical implications of technology is timelier than ever. He demonstrates that choices about the kinds of technical systems we build and use are actually choices about who we want to be and what kind of world we want to create—technical decisions are political decisions, and they involve profound choices about power, liberty, order, and justice. A seminal text in the history and philosophy of science, this new edition includes a new chapter, preface, and postscript by the author.
First published to great acclaim in 1988, Langdon Winner's groundbreaking exploration of the political, social, and philosophical implications of technology is timelier than ever. He demonstrates that choices about the kinds of technical systems we build and use are actually choices about who we want to be and what kind of world we want to create—technical decisions are political decisions, and they involve profound choices about power, liberty, order, and justice. A seminal text in the history and philosophy of science, this new edition includes a new chapter, preface, and postscript by the author.
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INDEX
Abalone Alliance, 199
Abundance, American ideas about, 43–47
Acid rain, 151
Activism, social, 65–66
Adams, Henry, 44, 166, 174
Addiction, x, 186–87, 192–94
Advertising, 61, 94–95, 99, 147, 170, 173
Age of Missing Information, The (McKibben), 214n1
Agribusiness, 26–27
Airplanes, jet, 140
Algorithms, vii, 183, 186, 192
Alienation, 94–97
Amazon, x, 181–82
American Revolution, 42–43, 112, 191–92
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 94
Anarchism, vii, 30, 69, 89–90
Antitechnology, xi, 27
Apple, 194
Appropriate technology, 20, 61–84; concept of, 61–63
Aquaculture, 71
Arendt, Hannah, 189–91, 195–96
Aristotle, 52, 116–17
Arms race, 83
Army, U.S., 109
Articles of Confederation, 89
Artifacts and social arrangements, vii, 25, 38, 94
Artificial intelligence (AI), vii, 14
Artificial sweeteners, 171
Athens, viii
Atom bomb, 34
Atomic Energy Commission, 197
Augustine, St., 161
Authoritarian technology, 19, 29, 175
Authoritarianism, 30, 187–89, 192, 199
Authority, 33–34, 48–49, 57, 95, 100, 130
Automobiles, 8, 93
Autonomy, 96–97, 182–83, 195
Autoplay, 186, 193
Avila Beach, 164, 177, 198
Ayer, A. J., 158
Ayers, Russel W., 37–38
Bacon, Francis, 123, 132
Benkler, Yochai, 179–82
Bestor, Arthur, 79
Better mousetrap, 78–79
Biotechnic Research and Development, 72
Biotechnology, 152–54
Black Panther Party, 65
Bookchin, Murray,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. A Philosophy of Technology
- II. Technology: Reform and Revolution
- III. Excess and Limit
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index