PDF-[DOWNLOAD]-Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (science.culture)

To most people technology has been reduced to computers consumer goods and military weapons we speak of technological progress in terms of RAM and CDROMs and the flatness of our television screens In HumanBuilt World thankfully Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potentialHughes draws on an enormous range of literature art and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture and to explain how we might begin to develop an ecotechnology that works with not against ecological systems From the Creator model of development of the sixteenth century to the big science of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered Thomas Jefferson for instance optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment Lewis Mumford two centuries later warned of the increasing mechanization of American lifeSuch divergent views Hughes shows have existed side by side demonstrating the fundamental idea that in its variety technology is full of contradictions laden with human folly saved by occasional benign deeds and rich with unintended consequences In HumanBuilt World he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions follies and consequences a history that resurrects technology rightfully as more than gadgetry it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values. 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Bhaskar Reddy Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati . Prof. K.P. Rao University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Prof. K. Rajan Pondicherry University , Pondicherry In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams\'s 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.This collection broadens our understanding of how we talk about the modern world, particularly of the vocabulary at work in information technologies. Contributors scrutinize each keyword independently: for example, the recent pairing of digital and analog is separated, while classic terms such as community, culture, event, memory, and democracy are treated in light of their historical and intellectual importance. Metaphors of the cloud in cloud computing and the mirror in data mirroring combine with recent and radical uses of terms such as information, sharing, gaming, algorithm, and internet to reveal previously hidden insights into contemporary life. Bookended by a critical introduction and a list of over two hundred other digital keywords, these essays provide concise, compelling arguments about our current mediated condition.Digital Keywords delves into what language does in today\'s information revolution and why it matters. To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons we speak of technological progress in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential.Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an ecotechnology that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the Creator model of development of the sixteenth century to the big science of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life.Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences. In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.