"Technology, Technique and the Body"

  1. What is the significance of the various animal anecdotes Tenner uses to open his essay? What point is he makingik] 2. What made the distinction between technology and technique apparent in early modem Europe 3. What point is Tenner making when he argues that many of today's familiar things require surprising degrees of skill in their early years% 4. What point is Tenner making when he asks whether the technique is abolished or relocatedeg; 5. Explain what Tenner means when he writes that "simpler construction may demand more skill.S)-!; 6. Why is the interaction between technology and technique desirable?
    ;]Edward Termer. "Epilogue"; 7. Why might the cyborg be seen as the next logical step?8. Explain what Tenner means when he says that "the first choice of medicine and dentistry is still the conservation of natural materials and abilities.W 9. Explain what Tenner means when he says that "the body remains surprisingly and reassuringly conservative.'W 10. Why is the thumb "enjoying a second renaissance-gm; 11. What does it mean that "humanity has been losing not only languages but body techniques"; 12. What is the remedy for oppressive standardization? 13. How many innovations did Eric von Hippel find that were initiated by usersik:i 14. What is significant about the piano keyboard as an interface:AE.45z

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