Why things bite back technology and the revenge of unintended consequences
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Formato: | 991009677640106719 |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Vintage Books
july 1997
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Edición: | First Vintage Books edition |
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- Conté: Ever since Frankenstein
- Medicine: conquest of the catastrophic
- Medicine: revenge of the chronic
- Environmental disasters: natural and human-made
- Promoting pests
- Acclimatizing pests: animal
- Acclimatizing pests: vegetable
- The computerized office: the revenge of the body
- The computerized office: productivity puzzles
- Sport: the risks of intensification
- Sport: the paradoxes of improvement
- Another look back, and a look ahead