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The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture (SUNY Series in Science, Technology, and Society)
Book Details
- Author
- Thomas F. Tierney
- Publisher
- Brand: State University of New York Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- History
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780471469070
- ISBN-10
- 0471469076
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ISBN: 0471469076
Author: Tierney, Thomas F.
Condition: New
In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern attitudes which emphasize consumption rather than production of technology.
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