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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology

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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology

de Tenner, Edward

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Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003. Hardcover. New/New Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾.

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From the author of Why Things Bite Back-- which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology--Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us, position us, or enhance our performance. In helping and hurting us, these body technologies have produced consequences that their makers never intended:- In postwar Japan traditional sandals gave way to Western-style shoes because they were considered marks of a higher standard of living, but they seriously increased the rate of fungal foot ailments.- Reclining chairs, originally promoted for healthful brief relaxation, became symbols of the sedentary life and obesity.- A keyboard that made the piano easier to learn failed in the marketplace mainly because professional pianists believed difficult passages needed to stay difficult.- Helmets, reintroduced during the carnage of World War I, saved the lives of countless civilian miners, construction workers, and, more recently, bicyclists.Once we step on the treadmill of progress, it's hard to step off. Yet Edward Tenner shows that human ingenuity can be applied in self-preservation as well, and he sheds light on the ways in which the users of commonplace technology surprise designers and engineers, as when early typists developed the touch method still employed on today's keyboards. And he offers concrete advice for reaping benefits from the devices that we no longer seem able to live without. Although dependent on these objects, we can also use them to liberate ourselves. This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner "the philosopher of everyday technology."From the Hardcover edition.

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Librería
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
000997
Título
Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology
Autor
Tenner, Edward
Formato/Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Nuevo
Estado de la sobrecubierta
New Jacket
Cantidad disponible
1
ISBN 10
0375407227
ISBN 13
9780375407222
Editorial
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Lugar de publicación
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Fecha de publicación
2003
Palabras clave
Science, Technology

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