Unbound (eBook)

How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

Richard L. Currier (Autor)

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2015
416 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-546-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.The fabrication of weapons, the mastery of fire, and the technologies of clothing and shelter radically restructured the human body, enabling us to walk upright, shed our body hair, and migrate out of tropical Africa. Symbolic communication transformed human evolution from a slow biological process into a fast cultural process. The invention of agriculture revolutionized the relationship between humanity and the environment, and the technologies of interaction led to the birth of civilization. Precision machinery spawned the industrial revolution and the rise of nation-states; and in the next metamorphosis, digital technologies may well unite all of humanity for the benefit of future generations.Synthesizing the findings of primatology, paleontology, archeology, history, and anthropology, Richard Currier reinterprets and retells the modern narrative of human evolution that began with the discovery of Lucy and other Australopithecus fossils. But the same forces that allowed us to integrate technology into every aspect of our daily lives have also brought us to the brink of planetary catastrophe. Unbound explains both how we got here and how human society must be transformed again to achieve a sustainable future.Technology: The deliberate modification of any natural object or substance with forethought to achieve a specific end or to serve a specific purpose.

Autor

Richard L. Currier earned his BA and PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a professor of anthropology at Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and the State University of New York. He coauthored a ten-volume series on archeology for young adults and published numerous articles in scholarly journals and mainstream magazines. A pioneer in the design and development of interactive learning technologies, Currier has won numerous awards for his work. He lives in Oceanside, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2015
• Vorwort: Tom Gjelten
• Zusatzinfo: 47 B&W photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: american universities • Ancient Greece • ancient greeks • apa style • autocratic rulers • baylor university • Black Death • catholic church modern world • chinese admiral • church created • colonial expansion • dark ages • distinguished professor • E • european superiority • global warming • Golden Age • greek city • highly rational • Human dignity • Human Evolution • Human progress • Ice Age • individual freedom • Industrial Revolution • iron industry • islamic culture protestant reformation • Islamic science • k12 • medieval Europe • Modern Science • Modern society • neglected story • non-western societies • Paleoanthropology • physical anthropology • political advances • Political Correctness • Political Freedom • politically correct • Politically Incorrect • practiced cannibalism • Private Property • property rights • Roman Empire • Scientific Revolution • so-called dark • Social Sciences • stark tells • studies based • swedish history • throughout christendom • western civ • Western civilization • Western Culture • Western History • western modernity • Western society • Western World • World View
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-546-X / 162872546X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-546-9 / 9781628725469