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Technology Has Made Us Healthier And Wealthier, But We Arenʼt Necessarily Happier In Our Zealously Engineered Surroundings. Edward Tenner Is A Connoisseur Of What He Calls Revenge Effects-the Unintended, Ironic Consequences Of The Mechanical, Chemical, Biological And Medical Forms Of Ingenuity That Have Been Hallmarks Of The Progressive, Improvement-obsessed Twentieth Century. In Seeking Out These Revenge Effects, He Ranges Far And Wide In Our Cultural Landscape To Discover An Insistent Pattern Of Paradox That Implicates Everything From Black Lung To Bluebirds, Wooden Tennis Rackets To Windows 95. His Insatiable Curiosity Embraces Technology In All Its Guises: Televised Competitive Skiing, Which Is Much Less Exciting Not That State-of-the-art Cameras Have Eliminated The Blur And Lost Motion Of Older Broadcasts; Low-tar Cigarettes, Which May Encourage Smokers To Defer Quitting Altogether, Justified Margins, Which Became De Rigueur Just A Psychologists And Typographers Were Realizing That Uneven Right-hand Edges Are Both More Legible And More Attractive; The Meltdown At Chernobyl, Which Occurred During A Test Of Enhanced Safety Procedures; And Much, Much More. While Tenner Is Fascina

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Author

Edward Tenner

Publisher

New York: Vintage Books

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679425632

Category

reference

Subjects

Sociology, Technology, Science

Rating

3.51 / 5 (297 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14