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Paper Heroes / Appropriate Technology: Panacea Or Pipe Dream?

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Penguin Books, 1991Description: 182ISBN:
  • 140153756
Summary: A thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between technology and development, ideology and industrialization, and, most fundamentally, man and machine. Foreword, What Is Appropriate Technology, Intermediate Technology, The Later Comers, Don't Do As I Do, Let Them Drink Coke, Foreign Aid, Millstone..., The Latecomers, Foreign Aid, ...or Stepping Stone, Small Industry in China, Walking on Two Legs, California Dreaming, Home is a Dome, The Whole Earth Catalog, Bucky Meets Fritz, Technologies in Context, Bios-gas in India, Solar Heating, Maize Grinding in Kenya, Earth Building, Choosing Technologies: Indonesia and East Pakistan, Soft Tech in America, Man/ Machine: Conclusions, Social Reform, Self-Reliance, Nonviolence, Revolutionary Tech, Evolutionary Tech, Epilogue, Index, Illustration Credits.
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A thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between technology and development, ideology and industrialization, and, most fundamentally, man and machine. Foreword, What Is Appropriate Technology, Intermediate Technology, The Later Comers, Don't Do As I Do, Let Them Drink Coke, Foreign Aid, Millstone..., The Latecomers, Foreign Aid, ...or Stepping Stone, Small Industry in China, Walking on Two Legs, California Dreaming, Home is a Dome, The Whole Earth Catalog, Bucky Meets Fritz, Technologies in Context, Bios-gas in India, Solar Heating, Maize Grinding in Kenya, Earth Building, Choosing Technologies: Indonesia and East Pakistan, Soft Tech in America, Man/ Machine: Conclusions, Social Reform, Self-Reliance, Nonviolence, Revolutionary Tech, Evolutionary Tech, Epilogue, Index, Illustration Credits.

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