Reframing technology : an intellectual history of thinking beyond the machine /

For over a hundred years, technological change has been framed using a simple narrative: technology drives history. Reframing Technology challenges this idea of technological determinism through metahistorical and literary analyses that locate the birth of contingent frameworks in the historiography...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hufford, Kent (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg/Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]
Subjects:	HC79.T4 > H84 2024 Technological innovations > History > 19th century. Technological innovations > History > 20th century. Technological innovations > Philosophy. Innovations > Histoire > 19e siècle. Innovations > Histoire > 20e siècle. Innovations > Philosophie. 20th Century. HISTORY. United States. Modern. Americas (North. Social History. History. SCIENCE. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Intro
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Technology Is Not a Tool
Contents
Introduction: When History Changes Technology
Chapter 1 Honeycombing the Past
Chapter 2 A Bad State of the Arts
Chapter 3 Disequilibrium, Unwilling Robots, and Decreation
Chapter 4 Converting Technology into Human Culture
Chapter 5 In-Formation Technology: An Ungrounding Experience
Chapter 6 Creating a New Technological Narrative
Epilogue: Impoverished Intelligence and Curbing Our Technological Enthusiasm
Works Cited
Appendix 1 The U.S. Origins of the Concept Technology
Appendix 2 Four Different Common Uses of the Word History
Index.