Edward Tenner
Edward Tenner, former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press, holds a visiting research appointment in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received the A.B. ... [... more]
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Biography - Tenner, Edward (1944-): An article from: ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 8 Publication Date: 2005-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology
Edward Tenner has been a visiting scholar in the Departments of Geosciences and English at Princeton University. Recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he is currently senior [... more]
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of ...
If computers really eliminate paperwork, why are the office recycling bins always overflowing? Why are the lines at ATMs often longer than the ones inside the bank? Anyone who has ever pondered these questions will delight in Edward Tenner's book, a [... more]
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Success Through Failure Success Through Failure: The ...
Success through Failure is an insightful and accessible foray into design. The book is a page-turner, with an intensity that builds as you read. I found myself waiting for discussions of various topics--from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to the space shuttle- [... more]
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Air-conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled ...
Amazon.com Review: Americans now spend most of their summertime in air-conditioned buildings or cars. In Air-Conditioning America, historian Gail Cooper shows that this is not necessarily an inevitable consequence of technological progress. Although we [... more]
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Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge Effect
Good Coverage of Difficult Subjects: Edward Tenner has written an amazing book dealing with unintended consequences of technology. The book probably would have received five stars if it was available in a more up to date version and/or more individual [... more]
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Just say no to tech determinism.(Technology Matters: ...
Author: Edward Tenner Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 6 Publication Date: 2006-09-22 Release Date: 2006-11-21 [... more]
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Human spaceflight.(Forum)(two comments on John M. ...
Author: Edward Tenner Author: Alex Roland Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 4 Publication Date: 2004-03-22 Release Date: 2006-04-14 [... more]
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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
How Technology Insidiously Transforms Us: "Why Things Bite Back" stands as one of my favorite books, and is definitely the best single volume available on the unintended consequences of technology. I was, of course, eager to read Edward Tenner' [... more]
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of ...
Amazon.com Review: To the Hopi Indians in America's Southwest, our existence will soon become koyaanissqatsi or "a world out of balance." Some doomsday theorists, like historian Edward Tenner, argue we are already there. But unlike many of his [... more]
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of ...
Amazon.com Review: If it can go wrong, it will--thus Murphy's Law. Science journalist Edward Tenner looks more closely at this eternal verity, named after a U.S. Air Force captain who, during a test of rocket-sled deceleration, noticed that critical [... more]
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