num_pages: 200
description: "The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."—David Dickson, New York Times Book Review" The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day."—Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis
language: English
title: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
titlecomplete: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
genres: History, Philosophy, Sociology, Sustainability, Technology, Science, Essays, Nonfiction, Academic, Politics
ratings_count: 244
publisher: University of Chicago Press