{"product_id":"why-the-hindenburg-had-a-smoking-lounge-essays-in-unintended-consequences-hardcover","title":"Why the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge: Essays in Unintended Consequences - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Tenner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as investors, and how do dog breeds become national symbols? Why have scientific breakthroughs so often originated in the study of shadows? How did the file card prepare scholarship and commerce for the rise of electronic data processing, and why did the visual metaphor of the tab survive into today's graphic interfaces? Why have Amish artisans played an important role in manufacturing advanced technology? Why was United Shoe Machinery the Microsoft of the 1890s? Surprises like these, Edward Tenner believes, can help us deal with the technological issues that confront us now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the 1980s, Edward Tenner has contributed essays on technology, design, and culture to leading magazines, newspapers, and professional journals, and has been interviewed on subjects ranging from medical ethics to typography. \u003ci\u003eWhy the Hindenburg Had a Smoking Lounge\u003c\/i\u003e--named for one of the paradoxes that can result from the inherent contradictions between consumer safety and product marketing--brings many of Tenner's essays together into one volume for the first time, accompanied by new introductions by the author on the theme of each work. As an independent historian and public speaker, Tenner has spent his career deploying concepts from economics, engineering, psychology, science, and sociology, to explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Tenner is a Distinguished Scholar of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University History Department. He also has held visiting research positions in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the University of Pennsylvania, and in the Princeton departments and programs of Geosciences, English, Information Technology Policy, and has taught seminars in the Princeton Humanities Council and the Freshman Seminars Program. He published his first book, \u003ci\u003eTech Speak or How to Talk High Tech: An Advanced Post-Vernacular Discourse Modulation Protocol \u003c\/i\u003ein 1986 while still a book acquisition editor at Princeton University Press. He left the Press to accept a Guggenheim award in 1991. The resulting book, \u003ci\u003eWhy Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences\u003c\/i\u003e, became an international bestseller and was followed by \u003ci\u003eOur Own Devices: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow Technology Remakes Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eThe Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). He has been an international speaker at academic, government, and corporate meetings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 585\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.05 x 9.13 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337192694125,"sku":"9781606180273","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/EqvP6VgWqr9781606180273.webp?v=1778926462","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/why-the-hindenburg-had-a-smoking-lounge-essays-in-unintended-consequences-hardcover","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}