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Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life or are we doomed to havingour lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines andsystems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than amaster?Technology and the Good Life? uses a careful collective analysis of AlbertBorgmanns controversial and influential ideas as a jumpingoff point fromwhich to address questions such as these about the role and significance oftechnology in our lives. Contributors both sympathetic and critical examineBorgmanns work especially his device paradigm apply his theories to newareas such as film agriculture design and ecological restoration andconsider the place of his thought within philosophy and technology studies moregenerally.Because this collection carefully investigates the issues at the heart of howwe can take charge of life with technology it will be a landmark work not justfor philosophers of technology but for students and scholars in the manydisciplines concerned with science and technology studies. «
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