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发表于2024-12-25
Why Things Bite Back pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Technology has made us healthier and wealthier, but we aren't necessarily happier in our zealously engineered surroundings. Edward Tenner is a connoisseur of what he calls "revenge effects" - the unintended, ironic consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed twentieth century. In seeking out these revenge effects, he ranges far and wide in our cultural landscape to discover an insistent pattern of paradox that implicates everything from black lung to bluebirds, wooden tennis rackets to Windows 95. His insatiable curiosity embraces technology in all its guises: televised competitive skiing, which is much less exciting now that state-of-the-art cameras have eliminated the blur and lost motion of older broadcasts; low-tar cigarettes, which may encourage smokers to defer quitting altogether; justified margins, which became de rigueur just as psychologists and typographers were realizing that uneven right-hand edges are both more legible and more attractive; the meltdown at Chernobyl, which occurred during a test of enhanced safety procedures; and much, much more. While Tenner is fascinated by these phenomena in their own right, Why Things Bite Back is not merely a compendium of technological perversities. There is a historical and, indeed, ethical agenda behind his "new look at the obvious." After all, Murphy's Law as originally uttered by a frustrated military engineer was meant not as a fatalistic, defeatist principle but as a call for alertness and adaptation. Tenner heartily concurs. Things do go wrong, with a vengeance, and assigning cause can be as tricky as unscrambling an egg.Reducing revenge effects demands substituting brains for stuff - deintensifying our quest for more, better, faster, in favor of finesse. And in Tenner's estimation, humanity is perfectly capable of this adjustment.
Edward Tenner, former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press, holds a visiting research appointment in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received the A.B. from Princeton and the Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and has held visiting research positions at Rutgers University and the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1991-92 he was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and in 1995-96 is a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Laundry list of things that bit back, no reason behind it. Thought-provoking though.
评分Laundry list of things that bit back, no reason behind it. Thought-provoking though.
评分Laundry list of things that bit back, no reason behind it. Thought-provoking though.
评分Laundry list of things that bit back, no reason behind it. Thought-provoking though.
评分Laundry list of things that bit back, no reason behind it. Thought-provoking though.
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评分好吧,其实这本书翻译实在太糟糕。但还好其实翻译是一字一词原样翻译过来,跟读英文也差不多(比如seat belt翻译成“座位安全带")。所以这个翻译基本上不影响阅读。 就是“报复”这个词太生硬,加上它几乎是书中出现频率最高的词了,让人读到一次惊吓一次。 这本书有几个地方...
评分这本书已经买了很久了,过一年就翻出来看一看,常读常新. 看一本书的价值,很重要的内容就在于看看其中涉及到的引文和资料来源,这本书的资料来源非常的丰富,光注释就有将近100页. 这本书是一本看起来很容易看,其实看起来很费劲的书. 不过一旦真正看完以后,你对很多事情的看法就有...
评分这本书已经买了很久了,过一年就翻出来看一看,常读常新. 看一本书的价值,很重要的内容就在于看看其中涉及到的引文和资料来源,这本书的资料来源非常的丰富,光注释就有将近100页. 这本书是一本看起来很容易看,其实看起来很费劲的书. 不过一旦真正看完以后,你对很多事情的看法就有...
Why Things Bite Back pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024