Society, Ethics and Technology : Preliminary Edition

by WINSTON/EDELBACH

Edition:

1st

ISBN13:

ISBN10:

0534509509

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/3/1998

Publisher(s):

Wadsworth Publishing

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Preface	p. v
How to Use This Book	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Perspectives on Technology	p. 1
Historical Perspectives
A Short History of the World	p. 2
The Act of Invention	p. 17
Industrial Society and Technological Systems	p. 27
Social Perspectives
The World Economy	p. 43
Women and the Assessment of Technology	p. 60
Invisible Technologies	p. 73
I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture	p. 82
Revenge Theory	p. 90
Artifacts/Ideas and Political Culture	p. 95
Philosophical Perspectives
Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics	p. 100
Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights	p. 111
Technology and Social Justice	p. 123
The Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics	p. 132
Contemporary Fields of Technology	p. 149
Automation and Work
The End of Work	p. 150
Computer and Information Technology
The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World	p. 156
Information and Our Interactive Future	p. 165
Computers and Privacy	p. 170
The Constitution in Cyberspace	p. 187
Biotechnology
Reproductive Technology: Delivered into Men's Hands	p. 195
Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning	p. 210
Biotechnology to the Rescue? Ten Reasons Why Biotechnology Is Incompatible with Sustainable Agriculture	p. 216
Population and Environment
Sustaining Life on the Earth	p. 225
Building a New Economy	p. 232
The Tragedy of the Commons	p. 247
Power Shock: The Next Energy Revolution	p. 256
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