Our Own Devices
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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology
By Edward TennerYet 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 ...
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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
By Edward Tenner... Scott Underwood of IDEO, and the staffs of Steelcase and the Bata Shoe Museum. I am also grateful to the many experts who responded to my queries, by electronic mail, by telephone, and in person: John S. Allen, Kenneth L. Ames, ...
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Our Own Devices
By Gilles MessierRetro sci-fi short stories: mid-century speculative fiction.
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Our Own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-century Ireland
By Ewan MorrisNational symbols have long been highly contentious in Ireland, and they remain so today. While there have been a number of studies which have examined the role of symbols in...
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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
By Edward TennerThis delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner “the philosopher of everyday technology.” Looking at how our inventions have impacted our world in ways we never intended or imagined, he ...
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Our Own Devices: Stories of the Machine Age
By Gilles MessierIn these nine new stories and three essays Messier explores our intimate and often fickle relationship with science and technology in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and how it came to define our past, present and future.