Technology, Technique, and the Body
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In ôTechnology, Technique, and the Body,ö Edward Tenner (2003), provides an article showing how other animal species besides human beings adapt their technique and body behavior based on technology. From bears to orangutans, Tenner uses the animal kingdom to show how a host of technological innovations from chairs and telephone dialing systems to helmets and shoes have affected human development, particularly the body and its technique. Opposed to technology doomsayers who maintain technology robs human existence of purpose and meaning, Tenner (2003, p. 9) argues that technology leads to a cyclical process of change seldom for the worse because ôOur material culture changes by an unpredictable dialectical flux of instrument and performance, weapon and tactic.ö Tenner supports his argument for humans transforming technology as much as technology transforms humans by showing evidence from the animal kingdom of a similar natu
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