Computers and Society Page 25 March 1996 Book Review American Technological Sublime David E. Nye The MIT Press, 1994 R e v i e w e d by: Joe P o d o l s k y podolsky@hpceOl.corp.hp.com David Nye is an observer of social, cultural, and teclmological grandeur. His is the broad view, the large scale. He is a specialist on America, but, since he recoglfizes America's roots in other cultures and lands, much of his discourse focuses on European (and, to a much lesser extent, Roman) influences. He has a sense of historical trends, both gradual and stochastic. His real talent, however, is his ability to weave those fabrics into a quilt that warms readers' understanding while shimmering with a beauty of its own. Nye tackles a tough subject. He's looking for things that are "sublime," things which inspire awe, a sense of grandeur, things that give us a conscious or subconscious realization of our negligible size, our fragility, our mortality. Mankind has always recognized the sublime in nature, from grand canyons to the thunder of storms to thundering waterfalls. These, in fact, are the basis of much of the world's spiritlml searching, the seekiug for
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