Transports of Delight How Technology Materializes Human Imagination
This inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ul
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Transports of Delight How Technology Materializes Human Imagination
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Transports of Delight
Peter Hancock
Transports of Delight How Technology Materializes Human Imagination
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Peter Hancock Department of Psychology University of Central Florida Orlando, FL USA
ISBN 978-3-319-55247-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-55248-4
ISBN 978-3-319-55248-4
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Praise for the Text "Hancock's Transports of Delight is a journey back through time to discover the future. The book artfully illustrates the theme that in creating our technologies we are re-creating ourselves, leaving us with the question of whether we are climbing higher, traveling an unending circular labyrinth, or regressively falling into predictable catastrophes?" Professor John Flach – Wright State University. Author of “What Matters.”
In this book Peter Hancock wonders at wonderment, he has insights into insightfulness, and is curious about curiosity. Peter is our historical journeyman who guides us on his voyage of discovery about the essence that drives humankind. The parody of the journey is not lost on us. The overwhelming desire to create and consume seems to lead to the inevitable consequence of destruction. Can we not learn the lessons of history mapped out before us? It seems that they are all too quickly lost in the mist of time, only to be relearnt by successive generations following similar paths. Humankind seems destined to create structures and effects that are far greater than ourselves and, as a direct consequence, become the arc
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