| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
532 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Fate of the earth / Jonathan Schell -- Why McDonald's french fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser -- Technology : practice and culture / Arnold Pacey -- Defining technique / Jacques Ellul -- Knowing world of things / Davis Baird -- Device paradigm / Albert Borgmann -- Can technology replace social engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- Role of technology in society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- Technology and culture in a developing country / Kwame Gyekye -- Autonomy of technique / Jacques Ellul. |
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Toward a philosophy of technology / Hans Jonas -- Reverse adaptation and control / Langdon Winner -- Artifacts, neutrality, and the ambiguity of "use" / Russell Woodruff -- In praise of technology / Samuel C. Florman -- Autonomy of technology / Joseph C. Pitt -- Is technology autonomous? / Michael Goldhaber -- Do machines make history? / Robert Heilbroner -- Social choice in machine design : the case of automatically controlled machine tools, and a challenge for labor / David F. Noble -- Technological momentum / Thomas P. Hughes. |
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Ruination of the tomato / Mark Kramer -- Presumed neutrality of technology / Norman Balabanian -- Technology and politics in totalitarian regimes / Paul R. Josephson -- Political impact of technical expertise / Dorothy Nelkin -- From information to communication : the French experience with videotex / Andrew Feenberg -- Citizen virtues in a technological order / Langdon Winner -- Technological ethics in a different voice / Diane Michelfelder -- Authoritarian and democratic technics / Lewis Mumford. |
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Less work for mother? / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Appropriate technology and inappropriate politics / Thomas Simon -- Technorealism : an overview / David Shenk -- Computerized office : productivity puzzles / Edward Tenner -- Virtual reality : the future of cyberspace / Gordon Graham -- Technologies of the individual : women and subjectivity in the age of information / Suzanne K. Damarin -- Information and reality / Albert Borgmann. |
| Subject |
Technology.
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| Added Author |
Katz, Eric, 1952-
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Light, Andrew, 1966-
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Thompson, William B., 1929-
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| ISBN |
1573929832 (alk. paper) |
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