Lem, Stanislaw
Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780816675777
- author:
- Lem, Stanislaw
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 440
- Dimensions:
- 23 x 16 x 3 cm
- Genre:
- Poetry, Drama & Criticism, History & Criticism, Literary Theory & Movements,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae is a thought-provoking philosophical treatise that explores the intersection of human and nonhuman life in its past, present, and future forms. First published in 1964, this work remains a timely and engaging examination of the limitations of science and humanity. Lem's investigation into the parallel development of biological and technical evolution offers a strikingly original perspective on the relationship between technology and humanity. He argues that technology will outlive humanity, positing an opportunistic, shortsighted, extravagant, and illogical form of evolution that has parallels with contemporary debates about information and new media. This work, now available in English for the first time, retains its intellectual and critical significance, with many of Lem's conjectures about future technologies having come true.
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