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Visions Of Technology: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World

by Richard Rhodes

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Celebrated technology historian Richard Rhodes offers this unique collection exploring technology's impact on modern life. Visions of Technology documents the era of technological advances, both good and bad, with essays ranging from Henry Ford's on ... Read more

Celebrated technology historian Richard Rhodes offers this unique collection exploring technology's impact on modern life. Visions of Technology documents the era of technological advances, both good and bad, with essays ranging from Henry Ford's on the horseless carriage to Margaret Sanger's on birth control to Robert Oppenheimer's on science and war. These essays put 20th-century progress in perspective, revealing the potential, the contradictions and the consequences change brings. Rhodes frames the essays with provocative commentary and insightful annotations. The myriad innovators and thinkers include Isaac Asimov, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Glenn, Stanley Kubrick and Charles Lindbergh.

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File size8.44 X 5.5 X 1 in
Print pages400
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date December 7, 2000
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780684863115
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Richard Rhodes
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Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has rece...

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