The Techno-Human Condition (repost)

"An important, provocative, and wide-ranging volume on the role of technology in our rapidly changing Anthropocene-era world. Essential reading for anyone interested in Methods to Shape the Future, World Futures, Security, Sustainability, and science/technology in general… a stimulating and timely book."- Michael Marien, Global Foresight Books

"A smart, articulate, and even witty investigation that avoids derailing into either the utopian or the dystopian. If the best is enemy of the good, The Techno-Human Condition is the good at its best." Richard Rhodes , author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb

"The Techno-Human Condition is first a cogent description of modernity from the perspective of a technological worldview and second a prescription for our problems through a rejuvenation of key Enlightenment precepts. The authors have clearly outlined how and why we are facing a fundamental cultural crisis precipitated by 'wicked complexity,' and this book is a clarion call for radical adjustment. I predict it will become a touchstone for reorienting our thinking about techno-society and the need to reconsider how global problems are faced by industrial societies." Alfred I. Tauber , Professor of Philosophy and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Boston University

A provocative analysis of what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.