Why Things Bite Back
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| Author | Edward Tenner |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Vintage Books |
| Publication date | 1997 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-0-679-74756-7 |
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences is a 1997 book by former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press Edward Tenner that is an account and geography of modern technology.[1]
Edward Tenner's book describes how technology has had unintended effects on society.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Tenner, Edward (1997). Why things bite back : technology and the revenge of unintended consequences. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-679-74756-7. OCLC 37570811.
- Basson, M.S. (1995) South African Water Transfer Schemes and their Impact on the Southern African Region, in Matiza, T., Craft, S. & Dale, P. (Eds.) Water Resource Use in the Zambezi Basin. Proceedings of a Workshop held in Kasane, Botswana, 28 April - 2 May 1993. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
- Blanchon, D. & Turton, A.R. (2005) Les Transferts Massifs d’Eau en Afrique du Sud. In Lasserre, F. (Ed.) Transferts Massifs d’Eau: Outils de Development ou Instruments de Pouvoir? (In French). Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l’Université du Québec. (Pp 247 – 283).
- Cowan, Ruth (1983). More work for mother : the ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-04732-1. OCLC 9619681.
- Heyns, P. (2002) Interbasin Transfer of Water Between SADC Countries: A Development Challenge for the Future. In Turton, A.R. & Henwood, R. (Eds.) Hydropolitics in the Developing World: A Southern African Perspective. Pretoria: African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU). pp157–176.
- Norman, Donald (1993). Things that make us smart : defending human attributes in the age of the machine. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-201-62695-7. OCLC 27036310.
- Postman, Neil (1992). Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-679-74540-2. OCLC 24694343.
- Rochlin, Gene (1997). Trapped in the net : the unanticipated consequences of computerization. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-00247-7. OCLC 614505530.
- Smith, Merritt (1994). Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19347-4. OCLC 28929481.
- Snaddon, C.D.; Davies, B.R.; Wishart, M.J. (1999). A Global Overview of Inter-Basin Water Transfer Schemes, with an Appraisal of their Ecological, Socio-Economic and Socio-Political Implications, and Recommendations for Their Management. Water Research Commission Report No. TT120/00 (PDF) (Report). Pretoria: Water Research Commission.
External links
[edit]- Why Things Bite Back at Randomhouse.com
- Why Things Bite Back's Author Interview by AmericanHeritage.com
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