Isbn: 9781857024760 - why things bite back: new technology and the revenge effect (10 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. 1996. hardcover. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . .

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First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Pages tanned as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: xiii, 346 pages; 20 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Technology Sociological aspects. Technology Social aspects. Technology Economic aspects. Technological innovations Revenge effect. Science Social aspects. Society Effects of Technology. Genre: Technology. 1 Kg. …

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 352 pages. Foxing If it can go wrong, it will--thus Murphy's Law. Science journalist Edward Ten ner looks more closely at this eternal verity, named after a U.S. Air Force capt ain who, during a test of rocket-sled deceleration, noticed that critical gauges had been improperly set and concluded, If there's more than one way to do a jo b and one of those ways will end in disaster, then somebody will do it that way. Tenner concurs, and he gives us myriad case studies of how technological fixes often create bigger problems than the ones they were meant to solve in the firs t place. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics, by way of example, has yielded h ardier strains of bacteria and viruses that do not respond to pharmaceutical tre atment; the wide-scale use of air conditioning in cities has raised the outdoor temperature in some places by as much as 10 degrees, adding stress to already-ta xed cooling systems; the modern reliance on medical intervention to deal with si mple illnesses, to say nothing of the rapidly growing number of elective surgeri es, means that even a low percentage of error (one patient in twenty-five, by a recent estimate) can affect increasingly large numbers of people. Tenner examine s what he deems the unintended consequences of technological innovation, drawi ng examples from everyday objects and situations. Although he recounts disaster after painful disaster, his book makes for curiously entertaining, if sometimes scary, reading. --Gregory McNamee.…