Whale and the Reactor
Subtitle: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226692548
Subjects: Technology
Description: "Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He has a blog and tweets liberally. First published in 1986, The Whale and the Reactor has been assigned for years. This edition includes a passionately argued new chapter entitled Beyond Techno-narcissism as well as a new Preface and a postscript describing the now planned decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon reactor in California"--