Technen: Elements of Recent History of Information Technologies with Epistemological Conclusions

by Andrzej P Wierzbicki

Book Overview

The book expresses the conviction that the art of creating tools - Greek techne - changes its character together with the change of civilization epochs and co-determines such changes. This does not mean that tools typical for a civilization epoch determine it completely, but they change our way of perceiving and interpreting the world. There might have been many such epochs in the history of human civilization (much more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319090321
• ISBN13: 9783319090320
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"