Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)

Winner, Langdon

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ISBN 10: 0262730499 ISBN 13: 9780262730495

Published by MIT Press, 1977

Language: English

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Hardcover 1st Printing in dust jacket SIGNED by Langdon Winner with personalized inscription to the former Dean of Public Administration at USC, Bob Biller, jacket shows light creased edge wear and fading to spine (titles clear), else clean tight excellent signed First Edition of this landmark philosophical meditation on the social effects of technology, scarce as such (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; x + 386pp indexed.

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Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (SIGNED FIRST EDITION)

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MIT Press

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1977

Language

English

ISBN 10

0262730499

ISBN 13

9780262730495

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Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition.

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Near Fine

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The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our standard conceptions of technology reveal a disorientation that borders on dissociation from reality. And as long as we lack the ability to make our situation intelligible, all of the "data" in the world will make no difference. From the Introduction

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Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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