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Technology and the Future

ISBN: 9780312116125 | 0312116128
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 8/15/1996

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Table of Contents
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Prefacevii
PART I THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY1(104)
1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?
3(12)
Leo Marx
2. The Powershift Era
15(10)
Alvin Toffler
3. Technopoly: The Broken Defenses
25(17)
Neil Postman
4. The Technological Torrent
42(13)
Thomas P. Hughes
5. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?
55(10)
Alvin M. Weinberg
6. The Role of Technology in Society
65(12)
Emmanuel G. Mesthene
7. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals
77(16)
John McDermott
8. Technology and the Tragic View
93(12)
Samuel C. Florman
PART II FORECASTING, ASSESSING, AND CONTROLLING THE IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY105(90)
9. Great Expectations: Why Technology Predictions Go Awry
107(10)
Herb Brody
10. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985
117(15)
Paul Ceruzzi
11. Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies
132(25)
Joseph G. Morone
Edward J. Woodhouse
12. Women and the Assessment of Technology
157(23)
Corlann Gee Bush
13. Controlling Technology
180(15)
Allan C. Mazur
PART III RESHAPING TECHNOLOGY195(106)
14. Buddhist Economics
197(9)
E.F. Schumacher
15. Can Technology Be Humane?
206(17)
Paul Goodman
16. Technological Politics As If Democracy Really Mattered
223(23)
Richard Sclove
17. Toward Human-Centered Design
246(8)
Donald A. Norman
18. Feminist Perspectives on Technology
254(16)
Judy Wajcman
19. Science, Technology, and Black Community Development
270(19)
Robert C. Johnson
20. Artifact/Ideas and Political Culture
289(12)
Langdon Winner
PART IV USING TECHNOLOGIES AND CONFRONTING THEIR DILEMMAS301(83)
21. The Dark Side of the Genome
303(11)
Robert A. Weinberg
22. Computer Ethics
314(22)
Tom Forester
Perry Morrison
23. Identity in the Age of the Internet
336(23)
Sherry Turkle
24. Less Work for Mother?
359(11)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
25. In the Age of the Smart Machine
370(10)
Shoshana Zuboff
26. Packing Tips for Your Trip (to the Year 2195)
380(4)
Douglas Coupland
About the Author384

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