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Technology and Power
David Kipnis
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Description for Technology and Power
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JM; KC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 259.
There is a dark side to human nature that is nurtured by the control of power. In an earlier book, The Powerholders, I I described several psychological principles that appear to govern the behavior of people who control and use social power. In particular, I examined how the successful use of power transformed, for the worse, the values and behavior of the influencing agent. My interest in the relation between technology and power grew out of reading David Howarth's Tahiti: A Paradise Lost,2 a description of the almost causal ways in which Western technology was used by early explorers and ... Read more
There is a dark side to human nature that is nurtured by the control of power. In an earlier book, The Powerholders, I I described several psychological principles that appear to govern the behavior of people who control and use social power. In particular, I examined how the successful use of power transformed, for the worse, the values and behavior of the influencing agent. My interest in the relation between technology and power grew out of reading David Howarth's Tahiti: A Paradise Lost,2 a description of the almost causal ways in which Western technology was used by early explorers and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387970820
SKU
V9780387970820
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99-15
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