The techno-human condition
A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What a long, transhuman trip it has already been
- 2. In the cause-and-effect zone
- 3. Level I and II technology : effectiveness, progress, and complexity
- 4. Level III technology : radical contingency in earth systems
- 5. Individuality and incomprehensibility
- 6. Complexity, coherence, contingency
- 7. Killer apps
- 8. In front of our nose