The Engineering Project

出版者:Penn State University Press

作者:Moriarty, Gene

页数:224

出版时间:2009-5

价格:$ 33.84

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780271032559

图书标签:工程伦理

We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. But at the same time, as these products disburden us of unwanted tasks that consumed much time and effort in earlier eras, many of them also leave us more disengaged from our natural and even human surroundings. It is the task of what Gene Moriarty calls focal engineering to create products that will achieve a balance between disburdenment and engagement: "How much disburdenment will be appropriate while still permitting an engagement that enriches one's life, elevates the spirit, and calls forth a good life in a convivial society?"