Book Bearings
Why Things Bite Back
- 346 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1996
- 6 editions
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1 About this book
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences is a 1997 book by former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press Edward Tenner that is an account and geography of modern technology.
Edward Tenner's book describes how technology has had unintended effects on society.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: technology and economics.
- Technology
- Technology, social aspects
- Technology, economic aspects
- Environmental degradation
- Nature, effect of human beings on
- Sociology
- Economics
- Umwelt
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