Technology and the Future
ISBN: 9781111828547 | 1111828547
Edition: 12thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/13/2012
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This diverse collection of readings by technology enthusiasts and critics introduces you to different philosophical approaches regarding the impact of technology, as well as specific technologies to give you a complete overview of technology today.
| Topical Contents | p. ix |
| About the Editor | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Thinking About Technology | p. 1 |
| Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? | p. 3 |
| How Society Shapes Technology | p. 13 |
| The Shock of the Old | p. 23 |
| Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? | p. 34 |
| Technology and the Tragic View | p. 42 |
| Do Artifacts Have Polit... MORE | p. 51 |
| Debating Technology: 1960s Style | p. 69 |
| The Role of Technology in Society | p. 71 |
| Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals | p. 81 |
| Debating Technology: Twenty-First-Century Style | p. 91 |
| Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | p. 93 |
| A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists | p. 117 |
| Promise and Peril | p. 123 |
| Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Climate Change | p. 147 |
| The Science Behind Climate Change | p. 149 |
| The Climate Science Isn't Settled | p. 161 |
| The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming? | p. 165 |
| 20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be a Bad Idea | p. 175 |
| Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: The New Biology | p. 187 |
| Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide | p. 189 |
| Applications, Benefits, and Risks of Synthetic Biology: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | p. 210 |
| Five Hard Truths for Synthetic Biology | p. 226 |
| The Case against Perfection | p. 233 |
| Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience | p. 245 |
| Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Information and Communications Technology | p. 267 |
| An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 | p. 269 |
| Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer | p. 281 |
| Computer Ethics | p. 287 |
| Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | p. 301 |
| Net Neutrality 101: Save the Internet | p. 310 |
| Managing Broadband Networks | p. 312 |
| Governance and Globalization | p. 321 |
| Government and Technology | p. 323 |
| The World Is Flat | p. 332 |
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