Research Catalog

Title

Technology and society : building our sociotechnical future / edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, Deborah G., 1945-
• Wetmore, Jameson M.

Description

xv, 623 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Inside technology

Uniform Title

Inside technology.

Subject

• Technology > Social aspects
• Technological innovations
• Technology and civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. "Technology and Social Justice" / Freeman J. Dyson -- 2. "The Machine Stops" / E. M. Forster -- 3. "The Prolongation of Life" / Francis Fukuyama -- 4. "Reproductive Ectogenesis: The Third Era of Human Reproduction and Some Moral Consequences" / Stellan Welin -- 5. "Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom" / Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology -- 6. "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" / Bill joy -- 7. "Do Machines Make History?" / Robert L. Heilbroner -- 8. "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts" / Trevor J. Pinch and Wiebe Bijker -- 9. "Technological Momentum" / Thomas P. Hughes -- 10. "Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts" / Bruno Latour -- 11. "Code Is Law" / Lawrence Lessig -- 12. "The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology" / Patrick D. Hopkins -- 13. "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" / Langdon Winner -- 14. "Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots" / George Ritzer -- 15. White / Richard Dyer -- 16. "Manufacturing Gender in Commercial and Military Cockpit Design" / Rachel N. Weber -- 17. "Pas de Trois: Science, Technology, and the Marketplace" / Daniel Sarewitz -- 18. "Amish Technology: Reinforcing Values and Building Community" / Jameson M. Wetmore -- 19. "Will Small Be Beautiful? Making Policies for Our Nanotech Future" / W. Patrick McCray -- 20. "Sociotechnical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall" / Dominique Vinck -- 21. "The Naked Launch: Assigning Blame for the Challenger Explosion" / Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch -- 22. "Bodies, Machines, and Male Power" / M. Carme Alemany Gomez -- 23. "Crash!: Nuclear Fuel Flasks and Anti-Misting Kerosene on Trial" / Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch -- 24. "When Is a Work Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development" / Neil Pollock -- 25. "Shaping Technology for the 'Good Life': The Technological Imperative versus the Social Imperative" / Gary Chapman -- 26. "The Feminization of Work in the Information Age" / Judy Wajcman -- 27. "Nanotechnology and the Developing World" / Fabio Salamanca-Buentello, Deepa L. Persad, Erin B. Court, Douglas K. Martin, Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer -- 28. "Nanotechnology and the Developing World: Will Nanotechnology Overcome Poverty or Widen Disparities?" / Noela Invernizzi and Guillermo Foladori -- 29. "People's Science in Action: The Politics of Protest and Knowledge Brokering in India" / Roopali Phadke -- 30. "Security Trade-Offs Are Subjective" and "Technology Creates Security Imbalances" / Bruce Schneier -- 31. "Questioning Surveillance and Security" / Torin Monahan -- 32. Energy, Society, and Environment: Technology for a Sustainable Future / David Elliott -- 33. Introduction to Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy / Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette -- 34. "Icarus 2.0: A Historian's Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement" / Michael Bess.

ISBN

• 9780262101240 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262101246 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780262600736 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262600730 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008002813
• 99931754905

OCLC

• ocn191024170
• 191024170
• SCSB-5443725

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries