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The great reversal : how we let technology take control of the planet / David Edward Tabachnick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442664074
  • 144266407X
  • 9781442664081
  • 1442664088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Great Reversal : How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet.DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 23
LOC classification:
  • CB478 .T22 2012eb
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Contents:
Finding and enforcing limits -- Phronesis vs. Techne -- The decline of good judgment -- The rise of technical knowledge -- Responses to the the great reversal -- Virtue in a technological age.
Summary: As the rise of technology threatens our very humanity, Tabachnick emphasizes that we still may have time to recover and develop these capacities -- but we must first decide how far we want to allow technology to determine our existence and our future.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index.

Finding and enforcing limits -- Phronesis vs. Techne -- The decline of good judgment -- The rise of technical knowledge -- Responses to the the great reversal -- Virtue in a technological age.

As the rise of technology threatens our very humanity, Tabachnick emphasizes that we still may have time to recover and develop these capacities -- but we must first decide how far we want to allow technology to determine our existence and our future.

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