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040 _aKenya National Library Service
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100 _aHard, Mikael
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245 _aHubris and Hybrids:
_bA Cultural History of Technology and Science/
_c Mikael Hard and Andrew Jamison
300 _a xv, 335 p. :
_b illustrations,
_c 24 cm.
520 _aHuman societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative, enterprising human spirit; and only by becoming hybrids, combining the human and the technological, will we be able to make effective use of our scientific
650 _aTechnology - History.
650 _aScience - History.
700 _a Jamison, Andrew.
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