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Homo Sapiens, Homo Faber, Homo Socians: Technology and the Social Animal

  • Caporael L
Springer Netherlands, (1987), 233-244
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-3967-7_11
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Modern technology is a pinnacle of human progress, the perfection of reason mirrored in design. It maintains that bit of Enlightenment hubris captured in the term Homo sapiens. Why, then, does it seem easier to design technology than to make decisions about how to...

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Caporael, L. R. (1987). Homo Sapiens, Homo Faber, Homo Socians: Technology and the Social Animal. In Evolutionary Epistemology (pp. 233–244). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3967-7_11

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