TY  - BOOK
AU  - TENNER Edward
TI  - Why things bite book: technology and the revenge effect
SN  - 1857025946 (pbk.)
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Fourth Estate Ltd
KW  - TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
N1  - Subtitle at cover: prediciting the problems of progress
N2  - In this fascinating book, historian of science Edward Tenner takes a fine-toothed comb to several realms of technological intervention and discovers a resolute pattern of `revenge effects, paradoxical, ironic consequences of the steps we take supposedly to improve our lives.' Of particular interest are the number of cases where supposed improvements to the environment have been anything but - where the particular problem has been made manifoldly worse by scientific intervention
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