David Channell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1099498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Channell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Channell |
| SIGNATURE | CHANNELL D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hand's End
Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan
Hand's End
438 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE information about how political and religious leaders and scholars ordered time, but little is revealed about how time and its order af fected the common person living in the Middle Ages. It is disappointing that Borst devoted only eight pages to the me chanical clock and does not relate the timekeeping systems to the push to develop and use a mechanical clock. Although in his first chapter he says that t…
Action into Nature
Action into Nature
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 711 story reminds us that giant enterprise continued to play a significant, in this case predominant, role in the business of science. Somewhat contrary to expectation, perhaps, AT&T, Hughes, and other big corpo rate laboratories did most ofthe pioneering work and then licensed their technology to the smaller companies that actually brought the first lasers to market. Bromberg characterizes this relationship a…
Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti
1150 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE conception of technology leads her unwisely to extend the relevance of underground images to a postindustrialism better represented by communication metaphors; modern technological environments con strued in terms of message flow and information hierarchies have few spatial coordinates, mythical or otherwise. Even so, her provocative study illuminates the history of technological metaphors, especially tho…
Society and Technological Change
Technology is a basic feature of all human societies and as such, a great deal can be learned about a society through the study of its technological status achiev ments. Society and Technological Change explores the international, social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of technology. It illustrates the ramifications of technological change, as well as the forces that produced it
Scientific Technology
Society and Technological Change
Technology is a basic feature of all human societies and as such, a great deal can be learned about a society through the study of its technological status achiev ments. Society and Technological Change explores the international, social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of technology. It illustrates the ramifications of technological change, as well as the forces that produced it
Scientific Technology
Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti
1150 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE conception of technology leads her unwisely to extend the relevance of underground images to a postindustrialism better represented by communication metaphors; modern technological environments con strued in terms of message flow and information hierarchies have few spatial coordinates, mythical or otherwise. Even so, her provocative study illuminates the history of technological metaphors, especially tho…
Society and Technological Change
Technology is a basic feature of all human societies and as such, a great deal can be learned about a society through the study of its technological status achiev ments. Society and Technological Change explores the international, social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of technology. It illustrates the ramifications of technological change, as well as the forces that produced it
Action into Nature
Action into Nature
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 711 story reminds us that giant enterprise continued to play a significant, in this case predominant, role in the business of science. Somewhat contrary to expectation, perhaps, AT&T, Hughes, and other big corpo rate laboratories did most ofthe pioneering work and then licensed their technology to the smaller companies that actually brought the first lasers to market. Bromberg characterizes this relationship a…
Hand's End
Hand's End offers a new philosophy of technology as the fundamental way in which humans experience and define nature - the tool as humanity extended. Rothenberg examines human inventions from the water wheel to the nuclear bomb and discusses theories of technology in the thought of philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Marx, Heidegger, Spinoza, Mumford, and McLuhan
Hand's End
438 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE information about how political and religious leaders and scholars ordered time, but little is revealed about how time and its order af fected the common person living in the Middle Ages. It is disappointing that Borst devoted only eight pages to the me chanical clock and does not relate the timekeeping systems to the push to develop and use a mechanical clock. Although in his first chapter he says that t…
Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (3 works) · Action (physics) (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (2 works)