The republic of technology: Reflections on our future community

Daniel J. Boorstin

Harper&Row

In this lively book, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Boorstin, author of the widely acclaimed trilogy The Americans, illuminates our everyday concerns with his reflections on the new meaning of technology for America and of America for technology. He gives us a bold new view of the two kinds of revolution - the political and technological - and shows us how and why they are different, and why technological revolutions are irreversible.\nWe are a center from which radiate forces that converge human experience everywhere. Though people around the world may not love one another any more than they did, yet their ways of life tend to become more and more alike. These same overwhelming forces of technology that homogenize the culture of the human race have disrupted the international community of nations; large and small nations become "equal," but each day the word "nation" grows more meaningless.\nIdeology, tribalism, nationalism, the crusading spirit in religion, bigotry, censorship, racism, persecution, immigration and emigration restriction, tariffs, and chauvinism do interpose barriers. For reasons which we are only beginning to discover, and which Boorstin explores in this controversial book, these barriers will only be temporary. The converging powers of technology will eventually triumph.

Republic of Technology: Reflections on Our Future Community

HarperCollins (paper)

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McGraw-Hill Companies

Teacher's edition:Critical thinking and other on-page teaching notes to enliven class discussion.

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PRENTICE/HALL

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Pearson\Prentice Hall

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Penguin Books, Ltd.

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