Reviews for Active Packaging Pira International's Guide to the Technology

The average rating for Active Packaging Pira International's Guide to the Technology based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-07-25 00:00:00 Joseph King A great guide to general adoption issues and how to use the internet to achieve adoption faster, great tips and a HUGE online resource. I liked how after I read this book adoption felt so much more possible than it had before.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-04-06 00:00:00 Ben Richards 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.