This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about
technology-now the dominant feature of our civilization-in fiction non-fiction film and
advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology
the hopes and fears we express in the different narratives the effect of those narratives upon
us and the new forms of myth those narratives represent. Narratives of Technology offers an
approach grounded in the humanities adding another perspective to that of social scientists
and technologists.
