Controlling Technology - Contemporary Issues
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Contents:
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- General Introduction
- PART 1. THE MODERN PREDICAMENT
- Introduction
- 1. The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
- 2. Why McDonald?Create's French Fries Taste So Good by Eric Schlosser
- PART 2. DEFINING TECHNOLOGY
- Introduction
- 3. Technology Practice and Culture by Arnold Pacey
- 4. Defining Technique by Jacques Ellul
- 5. The Knowing World of Things by Davis Baird
- 6. The Device Paradigm by Albert Borgmann
- PART 3. THE BLESSINGS OF TECHNOLOGY
- Introduction
- 7. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? by Alvin M. Weinberg
- 8. The Role of Technology in Society by Emmanuel G. Mesthene
- 9. Technology and Culture in a Developing Country by Kwame Gyekye
- PART 4. THE AUTONOMY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ITS PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICS
- Introduction
- 10. The Autonomy of Technique by Jacques Ellul
- 11. Toward a Philosophy of Technology by Hans Jonas
- 12. Reverse Adaptation and Control by Langdon Winner
- 13. Artifacts, Neutrality, and the Ambiguity of "Use" by Russell Woodruff
- 14. In Praise of Technology by Samuel C. Florman
- 15. The Autonomy of Technology by Joseph C. Pitt
- PART 5. DEMYSTIFYING AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
- Introduction
- 16. Is Technology Autonomous? by Michael Goldhaber
- 17. Do Machines Make History? by Robert Heilbroner
- 18. Social Choice in Machine Design: The Case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools, and a Challenge for Labor by David F. Noble
- 19. Technological Momentum by Thomas P. Hughes
- 20. The Ruination of the Tomato by Mark Kramer
- PART 6. TECHNOLOGY, ETHICS, AND POLITICS
- Introduction
- 21. Presumed Neutrality of Technology by Norman Balabanian
- 22. Technology and Politics in Totalitarian Regimes by Paul R. Josephson
- 23. The Political Impact of Technical Expertise by Dorothy Nelkin
- 24. From Information to Communication: The French Experience with Videotex by Andrew Feenberg
- 25. Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order by Langdon Winner
- 26. Technological Ethics in a Different Voice by Diane Michelfelder
- PART 7. APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
- Introduction
- 27. Authoritarian and Democratic Technics by Lewis Mumford
- 28. Less Work for Mother? by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
- 29. Appropriate Technology and Inappropriate Politics by Thomas Simon
- PART 8. COMPUTERS, INFORMATION, AND VIRTUAL REALITY
- Introduction
- 30. Technorealism: An Overview by David Shenk
- 31. The Computerized Office: Productivity Puzzles by Edward Tenner
- 32. Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace
- 33. Technologies of the Individual: Women and Subjectivity in the Age of Information by Suzanne K. Damarin
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