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Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are

By (author) Tom Chatfield

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'Powerful, profound and completely engrossing, this is a multitudinous meditation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethics, psychology and, above all, what it means to be human.' – Michael Bhaskar, co-author of The Coming Wave Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, and our deep involvement with our creations from the first use of tools and the taming of fire, via the invention of reading and printing, to the development of the computer, the creation of the internet and the emergence of AI. Human children know no more of modern technology than their ancestors did of older technologies thousands of years ago, and develop in relation to the technologies of their time. We co-evolve with technology as individuals as we have as a species over thousands of years. Rather than see technology as a threat, this deeply humanist contribution to the debate proposes that we are neither masters nor victims of our technologies. They are part of who we are, and our future – and theirs – is in our hands.

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Normally shipped | Stock is usually dispatched in 6-12 days from date of order
Publisher | Pan Macmillan
Published date | 22 Feb 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 336
Dimensions | 153 x 233 x 29mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 416g
ISBN | 978-1-5290-7975-3
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BISAC | technology / social aspects


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