Wise Animals - How Technology Has Made Us What We Are

''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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Chatfield, Chatfield Tom
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.02.2025
• EAN: 9781529079760
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-7976-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Technology: general issues, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies