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Human-built world

by Thomas Parke Hughes

"In Human-Built World, Thomas Hughes chronicles 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 range of literature, art, and architecture to illuminate 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...

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