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Albert Borgmann

Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life

A philosophical book by Albert Borgmann examining the impact of technology on society

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    “This book has aged devastatingly well since it was published in… get this… 1984. Sometimes the jokes write themselves. Borgmann initiated philosophical inquiry around the device; he was one of the first people to ask what happens to society when operational mechanisms are concealed, functional knowledge is removed from the commons and the means of production are privatized.”

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