Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science

by Andrew Jamison, Mikael Hard, Mikael Hård

Book Overview

Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative, enterprising human spirit; and only by becoming hybrids, combining the human and the technological, will we be able...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415949394
• ISBN13: 9780415949392
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"