Edward Tenner, Author . Knopf $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-375-40722-2
Marshall McLuhan once described media as an extension of the central nervous system. Tenner, a Princeton scholar and author (Why Things Bite Back), whose work might best be described as an anthropological history of science, extends the metaphor to...
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Edward Tenner, Author Vintage Books USA $16.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-679-74756-7
An examination of technology's unforeseen--and often unpleasant--consequences, which PW called ""thought-provoking."" (July)
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Edward Tenner. Knopf, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4139-8
Historian Tenner (Why Things Bite Back) argues that supposed advances in technological efficiency can actually be self-subverting in this reasoned antidote to a culture increasingly obsessed with doing more with less. He starts by examining the...
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Edward Tenner, Author, Tenner, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-42563-2
Even when used to better the world, technology fosters unforeseen, often unpleasant consequences that Tenner calls ""revenge effects."" For example, air-conditioned subways raise platform temperatures by as much as 10 degrees F; some computer users...
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