Visions Of Technology
Subtitle: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780684863115
Subjects: Impact of science & technology on society; Popular science; Technology; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; History; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Social Aspects; Science / General; 20th century; United States
First sentence: In his newspapers of January 1, 1900, the American found no such word as radio, for that was yet twenty years from coming; nor "movie," for that too was still mainly of the future; nor chauffeur, for the automobile was only just emerging and had been called "horseless carriage" when treated seriously, but rather more frequently, "devil-wagon, " and the driver, the "engineer."