Technology and cultural tectonics : shifting values and meanings /
This book is a uniquely original assessment of the consequences of recent technologies for the conventional meanings, shared values and symbols that constitute culture. As with the geological shifts generated by the earth's tectonic plates, technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring reali...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Summary: | This book is a uniquely original assessment of the consequences of recent technologies for the conventional meanings, shared values and symbols that constitute culture. As with the geological shifts generated by the earth's tectonic plates, technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions. Lucid prose featuring vivid examples and insightful analysis describes how contemporary reproductive, medical, genetic and information technologies forge unprecedented family relationships, produce a new mode of thinking based on the confluence of artificial and human intelligence and reconfigure conventional scales of time and space. Taken together, they redefine what it is to be human. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 188 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137342010 (hardback) 1137342013 (hardback) |