Download or read book Rewiring the "Nation" written by Carolyn de la Peña and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special bound issue of American Quarterly offers a re-reading of the narrative of U.S. technologies as we move beyond celebrations of exceptional tinkerers and a deterministic machine-driven sense of progress to a more complex understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities that befall a nation that interweaves its identities, labors, and creative cultures with its machines.