Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences

Tenner, Edward

ISBN 10: 0679425632 / ISBN 13: 9780679425632

Published by Knopf, 1996

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First edition, first printing in Fine condition with Mylar wrapped dust jacket in Fine condition (see photos). 346pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679425632
• ISBN 13: 9780679425632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

In this fascinating book, historian of science Edward Tenner takes a fine-toothed comb to several realms of technological intervention and discovers a resolute pattern of "revenge effects, "paradoxical, ironic consequences of the step s we take supposedly to improve our lives. Whether proliferating technology is fated to lead us to utopia, we can be certain that it has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

About the Author

Edward Tenner, former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press, holds a visiting research appointment in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received the A.B. from Princeton and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and has held visiting research positions at Rutgers University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1991-92 he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and in 1995-96 is a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.