Why Things Bite Back
{{Short description|1997 book by Edward Tenner}}{{Infobox book
| author = Edward Tenner
| isbn = 978-0-679-74756-7
| pub_date = 1997
| name = Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
| language = English
| country = United States
| publisher = Vintage Books
}}
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences is a 1997 book by former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press Edward Tenner that is an account and geography of modern technology.{{sfn | Tenner | 1997 | p=}}
Edward Tenner's book describes how technology has had unintended effects on society.
See also
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology{{sfn | Postman | 1992 | p=}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book | last=Tenner | first=Edward | title=Why things bite back : technology and the revenge of unintended consequences | publisher=Vintage Books | publication-place=New York | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-679-74756-7 | oclc=37570811}}
- Basson, M.S. (1995) South African Water Transfer Schemes and their Impact on the Southern African Region, in Matiza, T., Craft, S. & Dale, P. (Eds.) Water Resource Use in the Zambezi Basin. Proceedings of a Workshop held in Kasane, Botswana, 28 April - 2 May 1993. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
- Blanchon, D. & Turton, A.R. (2005) Les Transferts Massifs d’Eau en Afrique du Sud. In Lasserre, F. (Ed.) Transferts Massifs d’Eau: Outils de Development ou Instruments de Pouvoir? (In French). Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l’Université du Québec. (Pp 247 – 283).
- {{cite book | last=Cowan | first=Ruth | author-link=Ruth Schwartz Cowan | title=More work for mother : the ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave | publisher=Basic Books | publication-place=New York | year=1983 | isbn=978-0-465-04732-1 | oclc=9619681}}
- Heyns, P. (2002) Interbasin Transfer of Water Between SADC Countries: A Development Challenge for the Future. In Turton, A.R. & Henwood, R. (Eds.) Hydropolitics in the Developing World: A Southern African Perspective. Pretoria: African Water Issues Research Unit (AWIRU). pp157–176.
- {{cite book | last=Norman | first=Donald | title=Things that make us smart : defending human attributes in the age of the machine | publisher=Addison-Wesley Pub. Co | publication-place=Reading, Mass | year=1993 | isbn=978-0-201-62695-7 | oclc=27036310}}
- {{cite book | authorlink=Neil Postman|last=Postman | first=Neil | title=Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology | publisher=Knopf | publication-place=New York | year=1992 | isbn=978-0-679-74540-2 | oclc=24694343}}
- {{cite book | last=Rochlin | first=Gene | title=Trapped in the net : the unanticipated consequences of computerization | publisher=Princeton University Press | publication-place=Princeton, N.J | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-691-00247-7 | oclc=614505530}}
- {{cite book | last=Smith | first=Merritt | title=Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism | publisher=MIT Press | publication-place=Cambridge, Mass | year=1994 | isbn=978-0-262-19347-4 | oclc=28929481}}
- {{cite report|author1=Snaddon, C.D.|author2=Davies, B.R.|author3=Wishart, M.J. |year=1999|title=A Global Overview of Inter-Basin Water Transfer Schemes, with an Appraisal of their Ecological, Socio-Economic and Socio-Political Implications, and Recommendations for Their Management. Water Research Commission Report No. TT120/00|publisher= Pretoria: Water Research Commission|url=http://www.wrc.org.za/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT120-00.pdf}}
External links
- [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780679747567.html/ Why Things Bite Back at Randomhouse.com]
- [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1997/4/1997_4_18.shtml Why Things Bite Back's Author Interview by AmericanHeritage.com]
Category:1997 non-fiction books
Category:Social sciences books
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