| Description |
ix, 340 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents |
Which guide to the Promised Land: Fuller or Mumford? / Allan Temko -- Technocracy: despotism of beneficent expertise / Theodore Roszak -- Technology and the natural environment / Barry Commoner -- The responsibility of mind in a civilization of machines / Perry Miller -- Paradise (to be) regained / Henry David Thoreau -- The world a workshop / Thomas Ewbank -- Effects of machinery / North American Review -- On the democratic tendencies of science / Denison Olmstead -- The progress of invention during the past fifty years / Edward W. Byrn -- The dynamo and the virgin (1900) / Henry Adams -- The border-land of science / R.H. Thurston -- Edison's plan for preparedness / Edward Marshall -- What is expected of Naval Board / Edward Marshall -- Science to end war or end the race / Literary Digest -- Is scientific advance impeding human welfare? / Literary Digest -- The effect of science on social institutions Bertrand Russell -- Power and culture / Joseph K. Hart -- The fifth estate / Arthur D. Little -- Science and modern life / Robert A. Millikan -- Oxford and Chicago: a contrast / Arthur H. Compton -- Technocracy speaks / Howard Scott -- Veblen and technocracy / Leon Ardzrooni -- Technocracy--boon, blight, or bunk? / Literary Digest -- Machines and the future / Archibald MacLeish. |
| Subject |
Technology -- United States.
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Technology -- United States -- Collected Works. |
| Added Author |
Hughes, Thomas Parke.
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| ISBN |
0060429836 |
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9780060429836 |
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