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Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought

Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought

Winner, Langdon

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262730499
ISBN13: 9780262730495
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 15 1978
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
The truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified facts. What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our standard conceptions of technology reveal a disorientation that borders on dissociation from reality. And as long as we lack the ability to make our situation intelligible, all of the data in the world will make no difference. From the Introduction

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