The Whale and the Reactor

A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology

Langdon Winner

The Whale and the Reactor
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Langdon Winner

214 pages | © 1986
Paper $20.00 ISBN: 9780226902111 Published January 1988
E-book $7.00 to $20.00 About E-books ISBN: 9780226902098 Published July 2010
"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."—David Dickson, New York Times Book Review

"The Whale and the Reactor is the philosopher's equivalent of superb public history. In its pages an analytically trained mind confronts some of the most pressing political issues of our day."—Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Isis
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