Aramis, or the Love of Technology: ,
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Frankenstein's monster was born of human endeavour and 19th-century ignominious end but provided many lessons during his 24 years of plans and prototypes. Aramis, the guided-transportation system intended for Paris, represented a major advance in personal rapid transit - a system that combined the efficiency of a subway with the flexibility of the private automobile. But in the end, the system of electronic couplings proved too complex and expensive, the political will failed, and the plans were jettisoned in 1987.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674043227
ISBN13:9780674043220
Release Date:April 1996
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:314 Pages
Weight:1.36 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Well, like it or not - you have to read it. Clear books are boring propaganda. Insightful thoughts are never quite clear. For the clear read your bank statement.
A Hi-tech novel of Social Adoption of Technology
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
This is a very disturbing but at the same time very thought-provoking book on the adoption of a hypermodern new means of public transportation. Aramis was a small car version of the driverless subway which is now commonly known because of applications in Lille (France) and Orlando (USA) Latour disguises as a student of engineering sciences and writes a kind of whodunnit on the final question: 'who killed Aramis"? Because he lends his voice to the engineer, to his professor of Sociology, to the Aramis system itself and to himself as an author, the book shows different views on the same reality. Highly documented with texts that would be dynamite if they had been published during the development of the Aramis train system itself. Latour shows why Conservative governments never would adopt really revolutionary developments in public transportation. At times a difficult book, but hilarious too, and a reader for every technology-minded post-structuralist and post-marxist thinker... Stefaan Van Ryssen
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