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Can we survive our future? A symposium.
- Title
- Can we survive our future? A symposium. Edited and introduced by G.R. Urban, in collaboration with Michael Glenny.
- Author
- Urban, G. R. (George R.), 1921-
- Publication
- New York, St. Martin's Press [1972, ©1971]
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- Description
- vi, 399 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Since 1950
- Civilization, Modern > 1950-
- Technology and civilization
- Forecasting
- Technology
- Civilization
- Science
- Sociology
- Forecasting
- Technology
- Civilization
- Science
- Sociology
- Socioeconomic Factors
- civilization
- sciences (philosophy)
- sociology
- science (modern discipline)
- Civilization, Modern
- Technology and civilization
- Note
- "Interviews originally broadcast, in 1970-71, over Radio Free Europe."
- Contents
- Introduction / G.R. Urban -- The impact of science on the moral options of man -- Technical advance and the morality of power / Arnold J. Toynbee -- The loss of the past and the mystique of change / Philip Rieff -- Old values and the demands of new technology / Nigel Despicht -- Rationality in science and society / Werner Hisenberg -- Conformism and the rationale of technology / Jacques Ellul -- For a science of man / Erich Jantsch -- Restoring man's symbiosis with nature / Louis Armand -- Growth, controls and responsibility -- Technology and mass man / Maurice Cranston -- The social control of technocracy / Edward Shils -- The benefits and social costs of growth / Michael Shanks -- Change and social good / Andrew Shonfield -- Desirable and undesirable ends of technology / Dennis Gabor -- Ecology, controls and short-term expedients / Edwards Goldsmith -- On war, dissent and the control of knowledge / Herman Kahn -- Choosing the future -- The preconceptions of university protest in France / François Bourricaud -- Youth and the unfulfilled expectations of German democracy / Hellmuth Bütow -- The scope of technological convergences / Maurice Duverger -- The fallacy of technological convergence / Théo Lefèvre -- The anachronism of sovereignty in a technological world / James Fawcett -- NATO and the environment / Gunnar Randers -- Opportunities and pitfalls of future-oriented research / Bernard Cazes -- Marxism and the third road / Ossip K. Flechtheim -- Learning to live with a doom-laden future / Brian Aldiss.
- LCCN
- 76178687
- OCLC
- ocm00315330
- 315330
- SCSB-190996
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library