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1	The medium is the massage more books like this by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore 30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" becomes more evident and plain. In his words, Uso pervasive are they in their personal, political, ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Being Digital more books like this by Nicholas Negroponte In this title, the author examines the startling implications of the digital revolution and how it is transforming the way we live. His belief is that all forms of media--text, voice, and video--are changing the fundamental way in which we view information. In the future he predicts that the real gap in society will not be economic, but between ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Technological Society more books like this by Jacques Ellul ."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process."- Harper's Magazine see all copies from $5.99! new only from $7.16! \| SVS
4	Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man more books like this by Marshall McLuhan see all copies from $1.99! new only from $131.45! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Pentagon of Power more books like this by Lewis Mumford In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.67! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe more books like this by Elizabeth L Eisenstein Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilization has long been recognized, Professor Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated, abridged edition of her earlier work is designed to give a useful and stimulating survey of the communications ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy more books like this by Stanley M Davis, Christopher Meyer Get ready for a whole new world--a world of blur in which traditional boundaries between product and service, capital and people, buyer and seller, and real and virtual no longer apply. Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer have a front row seat to these tectonic changes and, in this groundbreaking book, they not only define the phenomenon but show ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Operating manual for spaceship earth more books like this by R Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller (1895a "1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his comprehensive perspective on the worlda (TM)s problems in numerous essays, which offer an illuminating ... see all copies from $7.95! first editions
9	Axemaker's Gift more books like this by James Lee Burke, Robert Ornstein, Ph.D. (Read by) Historian James Burke and psychologist Robert Ornstein illustrate the spiraling impact from humankind's development of technology. Now, the authors argue, we need to learn how to shift human society back into harmony by understanding and respecting the basic wisdom of the nontechnical world. A major achievement that journeys through human culture ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Technology & the Future more books like this by Albert H Teich TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE offers an unsurpassed collection of readings on how technology shapes society while itself being shaped by social trends. It presents a balanced view, including critics of technology as well as technological enthusiasts. By including both philosophical approaches, as well as discussions of such specific technologies as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.75! \| first editions
11	War and Peace in the Global Village more books like this by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore In 1967, Marshall McLuhan, herald of the communications revolution, collaborated with Quentin Fiore on two volumes. "The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects", was the first; "War and Peace in the Global Village" was the second. Subtitles "An Inventory of Some of the Current Spastic Situations That Could Be Eliminated by More Feedforward ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Medieval technology and social change more books like this by Lynn White see all copies from $2.07! new only from $7.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13	Technics and Civilization more books like this by Lewis Mumford This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $56.29! \| first editions
14 view cover	The System of Objects (Radical Thinkers) more books like this by Professor Jean Baudrillard Published for the first time in English, here is Jean Baudrillard's earliest book - a kind of theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, at a time when (as the author would put it later) "the society of the spectacle and its denunciation were still the focal point of semiological, psychoanalytical and sociological arguments". ... see all copies from $6.70! new only from $7.16! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future more books like this by James E Martin, PH.D. James Martin tells us that we are living in a turning point in human history. "We are traveling at breakneck speed into an era of extremes- extremes of wealth and poverty, extremes in technology, extremes of globalism. If we are to survive, we must learn how to manage them all." Although we now face huge challenges and conflicts, the scientific ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future more books like this by Neil Postman In this analysis, a social critic examines the scientific and intellectual climate of the 18th century, and suggests that readers guide themselves into the 21st century by applying the wisdom of the past. see all copies from $2.94! new only from $7.72! \| SVS
17	So human an animal more books like this by René Jules Dubos see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Technology in World Civilization more books like this by Arnold Pacey In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in a "world civilization." see all copies from $9.00! new only from $11.87!
19 view cover	The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects more books like this by Marshall McLuhan, Jerome Agel (Photographer), Quentin Fiore Millions of "global villagers" connected by the communications revolution Marshall McLuhan foresaw, have never read the most influential, prophetic, and entertaining book ever written on the subject--The Medium is the Massage (originally published in 1967). The authors have selected excerpts from McLuhan's most electrifying theories and insights. ... see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	Technology in the Ancient World more books like this by Henry Hodges see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	The testament of Yves Gundron more books like this by Emily Barton This debut novel takes place in what seems to be a long-ago time but is actually the 20th century, in an isolated town somewhere in the British Isles. The town's primitive customs gradually change and become modernized when an American graduate student comes to town on a research project, startles the populace with her exotic ways (not to mention ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A God within more books like this by René Jules Dubos see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.27! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Good work more books like this by E F Schumacher see all copies from $2.96! first editions
24 view cover	Galactic North more books like this by Alastair Reynolds With eight short stories and novellas--including three original to this collection--"Galactic North" imparts the centuries-spanning events that have produced the dark and turbulent world of "Revelation Space." see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25	Myth of the Machine more books like this by Lewis Mumford see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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