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Topical Contents | p. ix |
About the Editor | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Thinking About Technology | p. 1 |
Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? | p. 3 |
How Society Shapes Technology | p. 13 |
The Shock of the Old | p. 23 |
Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? | p. 34 |
Technology and the Tragic View | p. 42 |
Do Artifacts Have Politics? | p. 51 |
Debating Technology: 1960s Style | p. 69 |
The Role of Technology in Society | p. 71 |
Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals | p. 81 |
Debating Technology: Twenty-First-Century Style | p. 91 |
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us | p. 93 |
A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists | p. 117 |
Promise and Peril | p. 123 |
Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Climate Change | p. 147 |
The Science Behind Climate Change | p. 149 |
The Climate Science Isn't Settled | p. 161 |
The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming? | p. 165 |
20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be a Bad Idea | p. 175 |
Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: The New Biology | p. 187 |
Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide | p. 189 |
Applications, Benefits, and Risks of Synthetic Biology: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | p. 210 |
Five Hard Truths for Synthetic Biology | p. 226 |
The Case against Perfection | p. 233 |
Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience | p. 245 |
Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Information and Communications Technology | p. 267 |
An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 | p. 269 |
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer | p. 281 |
Computer Ethics | p. 287 |
Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains | p. 301 |
Net Neutrality 101: Save the Internet | p. 310 |
Managing Broadband Networks | p. 312 |
Governance and Globalization | p. 321 |
Government and Technology | p. 323 |
The World Is Flat | p. 332 |
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