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Society, Ethics and Technology : Preliminary Edition
ISBN: 9780534509507 | 0534509509
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 8/3/1998
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| Preface | p. v |
| How to Use This Book | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Perspectives on Technology | p. 1 |
| Historical Perspectives | |
| A Short History of the World | p. 2 |
| The Act of Invention | p. 17 |
| Industrial Society and Technological Systems | p. 27 |
| Social Perspectives | |
| The World Economy | p. 43 |
| Women and th... MORE | p. 60 |
| Invisible Technologies | p. 73 |
| I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture | p. 82 |
| Revenge Theory | p. 90 |
| Artifacts/Ideas and Political Culture | p. 95 |
| Philosophical Perspectives | |
| Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics | p. 100 |
| Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights | p. 111 |
| Technology and Social Justice | p. 123 |
| The Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics | p. 132 |
| Contemporary Fields of Technology | p. 149 |
| Automation and Work | |
| The End of Work | p. 150 |
| Computer and Information Technology | |
| The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World | p. 156 |
| Information and Our Interactive Future | p. 165 |
| Computers and Privacy | p. 170 |
| The Constitution in Cyberspace | p. 187 |
| Biotechnology | |
| Reproductive Technology: Delivered into Men's Hands | p. 195 |
| Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning | p. 210 |
| Biotechnology to the Rescue? Ten Reasons Why Biotechnology Is Incompatible with Sustainable Agriculture | p. 216 |
| Population and Environment | |
| Sustaining Life on the Earth | p. 225 |
| Building a New Economy | p. 232 |
| The Tragedy of the Commons | p. 247 |
| Power Shock: The Next Energy Revolution | p. 256 |
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