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Technological Nature

Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

By: Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

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Technological Nature

Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

By: Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology. Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but increasingly we experience technological nature. Children come of age watching digital nature programs on television. They inhabit virtual lands in digital games. And they play with robotic animals, purchased at big box stores. Until a few years ago, hunters could "telehunt"—shoot and kill animals in Texas from a computer anywhere in the world via a Web interface. Does it matter that much of our experience with nature is mediated and augmented by technology? In Technological Nature, Peter Kahn argues that it does, and shows how it affects our well-being. Kahn describes his investigations of children's and adults' experiences of cutting-edge technological nature. He and his team installed "technological nature windows" (50-inch plasma screens showing high-definition broadcasts of real-time local nature views) in inside offices on his university campus and assessed the physiological and psychological effects on viewers. He studied children's and adults' relationships with the robotic dog AIBO (including possible benefits for children with autism). And he studied online "telegardening" (a pastoral alternative to "telehunting"). Kahn's studies show that in terms of human well-being technological nature is better than no nature, but not as good as actual nature. We should develop and use technological nature as a bonus on life, not as its substitute, and re-envision what is beautiful and fulfilling and often wild in essence in our relationship with the natural world.

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0262294834

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The Human Relationship with Nature

Development and Culture

By: Peter H. Kahn

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The Human Relationship with Nature

Development and Culture

By: Peter H. Kahn

Winner of Outstanding Book Award, 2000, Moral Development and Education, American Educational Research Association. Winner of the 2000 Book Award from the Moral Development & Education Group of the American Educational Research Association Urgent environmental problems call for vigorous research and theory on how humans develop a relationship with nature. In a series of original research projects, Peter Kahn answers this call. For the past eight years, Kahn has studied children, young adults, and parents in diverse geographical locations, ranging from an economically impoverished black community in Houston to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon. In these studies Kahn seeks answers to the following questions: How do people value nature, and how do they reason morally about environmental degradation? Do children have a deep connection to the natural world that gets severed by modern society? Or do such connections emerge, if at all, later in life, with increased cognitive and moral maturity? How does culture affect environmental commitments and sensibilities? Are there universal features in the human relationship with nature? Kahn's empirical and theoretical findings draw on current work in psychology, biology, environmental behavior, education, policy, and moral development. This scholarly yet accessible book will be of value to practitioners in the social science and environmental fields, as well as to informed generalists interested in environmental issues and children.

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Technological Nature

Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

By: Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

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Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

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Wired for War

The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century

By: Peter Warren Singer

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Wired for War

The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century

By: Peter Warren Singer

Traces the advent of robotic warfare, revealing its use in the war in Iraq, the latest technological achievements, and the secret Pentagon consultations with top science fiction authors.

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Penguin

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1594201986

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The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich

By: Peter Pennoyer,Anne Walker

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The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich

By: Peter Pennoyer,Anne Walker

The firm of Delano & Aldrich occupied a central place in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, substantially shaping the architectural climate of the period.

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Technological Nature

Technological Nature

The Human Relationship with Nature

The Human Relationship with Nature

Technological Nature

Technological Nature

Wired for War

Wired for War

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The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich

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