abstract:Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences is a 1997 book by former executive editor for physical science and history at Princeton University Press Edward Tenner that is an account and geography of modern technology.
Edward Tenner is author of Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity and WhyThingsBiteBack: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (both Vintage).
In his intriguing book, WhyThingsBiteBack, author Edward Tenner shows how the use of technology to make life better often has unexpected and ugly consequences.