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source: bookwyrm
date: 2025-04-19 19:03:23.00 +00
title: "The Real World of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin"
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book_title: "The Real World of Technology"
book_author: "Ursula M. Franklin"
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![Cover of The Real World of Technology by Ursula M. Franklin, published 1999-01-04 by Anansi, a 209-page paperback](./cover-7239931.jpg)

Franklin's lectures are no less relevant in 2025 than they were when she added the final three chapters in 1999 to texts delivered as lectures in 1989 conceived as early as in the 1970s with respect to a a gem of fascinating sets of dialectics regarding what she calls the real world of technology. Holistic and prescriptive work, planners and planees, environment and nature, liberation and exploitation, time and space.