About This Book
This series of lectures, delivered in 1989, examines the social and political conseqences of technology in the real world, that is, in our everyday lives. Franklin, an experimental physicist and humanitarian, constructs a criticism of technology that puts the needs of humans ahead of the needs of te...
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3h 46m
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2h 43m
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250 WPM
1h 56m
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350 WPM
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