Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N9MW4HA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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A satisfying complete work beautifully written and presented. Cooper Robert I have just put down what will be a classic and required reading in anthropology departments. 'Unbound' is more: it is a highly readable, believable history of how Man became what s/he is. It's a big book, and getting five million years into some 400+ pages must have been a Herculean task of editing for Currier. I read it almost at a sitting. Rarely can one call a work of non-fiction a page-turner, but this one is. And having been a Professor of Anthropology or actively involved in. Brian Asalone said Worth the read. While the title doesn't exactly make you want to grab it and burn though the text, this is a fascinating book. Starting with the early hominids (ok, no longer technically correct) Currier deftly illustrates the effect of various technologies on humanity. Sure the obvious ones are included like the agricultural revolution, but others are equally, if not more profound, such as the very use of tools. Currier explains his reasoning and this is where the book excels. As an example, tool. "Amazing Read!" according to Cara. Loving to read a good book of any kind, I so often find that reading non-fiction can be a tedious labor, with the book's author approaching a single subject from a hundred different angles, to create a book from what could have been discussed in a chapter. Not so with Unbound! With ten chapters, eight technologies and five million years of history on earth as a subject matter, this book is as enjoyable to read as it is full of information on the evolution of humanity and technology
Richard Currier will grab your attention on the first page and hold it to the last. Rarely can one call a work of non-fiction a page-turner, but this one is. Hammel, professor of Anthropology and Demography, emeritus, University of California at BerkeleySweeping in scope, daring in proposition, Unbound looks backward to look forward at a future mediatedand threatenedby human technologies." Brandy Schillace, PhD, managing editor, Culture, Medicine, and PsychiatryUnbound combines the best of a lifetime of discriminating, multidisciplinary scholarship with the storytelling abilities of great scholarly, humanistic writers like Desmond Morris, Carl Sagan, and historian James McPherson. Beeman, professor and chair, Department of Anthropology, University of MinnesotaHow has technology figured in bringing us to our present-day predicament? Given anthropologist and author Richard Currier&
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.”. 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. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.The fabrication of weapons, the mastery of