Research Catalog

Title

Technology and the future / Albert H. Teich, editor.

Publication

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Teich, Albert H.

Description

xxi, 330 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Technology > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Thinking about Technology -- 1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? / Leo Marx -- 2. Flow Society Shapes Technology / Robert Pool -- 3. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- 4. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer / Wendell Berry -- 5. Technology and the Tragic View / Samuel C. Florman -- pt. II. Debating Technology: 1960s Style -- 6. The Role of Technology in Society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- 7. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals / John McDermott -- pt. III. Alternative Perspectives on Technology -- 8. Buddhist Economics / E.F. Schumacher -- 9. Can Technology Be Humane? / Paul Goodman -- 10. Technological Politics As If Democracy Really Mattered / Richard Sclove -- 11. Western Colonization of the Future / Ziauddin Sardar -- 12. Black Futurists in the Information Age / Timothy L. Jenkins -- 13. Feminist Perspectives on Technology / Judy Wajcman -- 14. Do Artifacts Have Politics? / Langdon Winner -- pt. IV. Dilemmas of New Technology: Vulnerability -- 15. Terrorism and Brittle Technology / Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins -- 16. Technological Vulnerability / Brian Martin -- pt. V. Dilemmas of New Technology: Bioethics -- 17. The Dark Side of the Genome / Robert A. Weinberg -- 18. Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research / George W. Bush -- 19. Hard Cell: A Commentary on the President's Stem Cell Address / Thomas H. Murray -- 20. The Wisdom of Repugnance / Leon R. Kass -- 21. Science Fiction: A Comment on Leon Kass's Bioethics / Jerome Groopman -- pt. VI. Dilemmas of New Technology: Computers and Information -- 22. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 / Paul Ceruzzi -- 23. Computer Ethics / Tom Forester and Perry Morrison -- 24. The Internet Under Siege / Lawrence Lessig -- 25. In the Age of the Smart Machine / Shoshana Zuboff -- 26. The Logistics of Techno-War / Gene I. Rochlin -- pt. VII. Debating Technology: 21st Century Style -- 27. Why the Future Doesn't Need us / Bill Joy -- 28. A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid -- pt. VIII. Coda -- 29. In Touch at Last / Seth Shostak.

ISBN

0534604269

LCCN

^^2002108085

OCLC

50558789

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library