Why things bite back technology and the revenge of unintended consequences

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tenner, Edward (-)
Formato: 991009677640106719
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Vintage Books july 1997
Edición:First Vintage Books edition
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Pública Episcopal del Seminario de Barcelona:https://csuc-instb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,991002972530406707&tab=BPEBcat&search_scope=BPEB&vid=34CSUC_INSTB:BPEB&offset=0
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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