Reviews for Technology Shaping Our World

The average rating for Technology Shaping Our World based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-03 00:00:00 Merrill Harris Hey! :D What is going on people? I have finished reading the book Albert Einstein: The Giant of 20th Century Science. I have not read biography for a while, so I enjoyed reading this book! (Obviously this book's genre is biography) I chose this book because I figured out that in every science class I have, there is always a poster on this one guy, which is Albert Einstein, so i figured that it would be interesting to know why he is acknowledged so much in the science world. This book shows all the stages that Albert Einstein had to go through. It was very thorough and clear. Finally, it is now the time for my opinion about the book. I thought Einstein was like a genius from his childhood until his death, but apparantly I learned that he is not that genius like person. He was simply a person with a lot of interest in science, especially in physics world. Albert talks about science with his colleagues. That fact was a "wow" for me because I have never seen a person who meets someone to talk about advanced science and how the phenomon works. I was also surprised that Einstein married, divorced, and married again. In my perspective, scientists are supposed to be alone and only focused in his science world, but that's just me.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-22 00:00:00 Matt Koskenmaki Some interesting bits, and his literary analyses are stronger than the attempts at cultural history. Jones is less interested in the Luddites than in their legacy. That is, how they've become mythologized and represented in popular culture -- from Romantic poetry to 1960s counterculture to contemporary anti-globalism movements. He makes some interesting points about the Luddites -- that they weren't simply anti-technology but more anti-capitalist-exploitation, and that they used modes of rather complicated symbolic representation (i.e. making up the leader "Ned Ludd," likening themselves to Robin Hood, and so on). And he reads against the grain, taking pieces that are most often interpreted as simply anti-technology (i.e. Frankenstein and William Blake’s poetry), arguing for more nuanced considerations of science, machinery, and technology.