Technology and the Future

by Teich, Albert H.

• ISBN13: 9780534604264
• ISBN10: 0534604269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-12
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE offers an unsurpassed collection of readings on how technology shapes society while itself being shaped by social trends. It presents a balanced view, including critics of technology as well as technological enthusiasts. By including both philosophical approaches, as well as discussions of such specific technologies as information technology and biotechnology, this text offers a unique and unparalleled overview of technology today.

Table of Contents

Topical Contents	xi
About the Editor	xv
Preface	xvii
Part I Thinking about Technology	1	(46)
Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?	3	(10)
Leo Marx
How Society Shapes Technology	13	(10)
Robert Pool
Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?	23	(8)
Alvin M. Weinberg
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer	31	(6)
Wendell Berry
Technology and the Tragic View	37	(10)
Samuel C. Florman
Part II Debating Technology: 1960s Style	47	(22)
The Role of Technology in Society	49	(10)
Emmanuel G. Mesthene
Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals	59	(10)
John McDermott
Part III Alternative Perspectives on Technology	69	(96)
Buddhist Economics	71	(7)
E. F. Schumacher
Can Technology Be Humane?	78	(13)
Paul Goodman
Technological Politics As If Democracy Really Mattered	91	(18)
Richard Sclove
Western Colonization of the Future	109	(10)
Ziauddin Sardar
Black Futurists in the Information Age	119	(16)
Timothy L. Jenkins
Feminist Perspectives on Technology	135	(13)
Judy Wajcman
Do Artifacts Have Politics?	148	(17)
Langdon Winner
Part IV Dilemmas of New Technology: Vulnerability	165	(20)
Terrorism and Brittle Technology	167	(5)
Amory B. Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins
Technological Vulnerability	172	(13)
Brian Martin
Part V Dilemmas of New Technology: Bioethics	185	(44)
The Dark Side of the Genome	187	(9)
Robert A. Weinberg
Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research	196	(4)
President George W. Bush
Hard Cell: A Commentary on the President's Stem Cell Address	200	(9)
Thomas H. Murray
The Wisdom of Repugnance	209	(16)
Leon R. Kass
Science Fiction: A Comment on Leon Kass's Bioethics	225	(4)
Jerome Groopman
Part VI Dilemmas of New Technology: Computers and Information	229	(64)
An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985	231	(11)
Paul Ceruzzi
Computer Ethics	242	(16)
Tom Forester
Perry Morrison
The Internet Under Siege	258	(10)
Lawrence Lessig
In the Age of the Smart Machine	268	(8)
Shoshana Zuboff
The Logistics of Techno-War	276	(17)
Gene I. Rochlin
Part VII Debating Technology: 21st Century Style	293	(30)
Why the Future Doesn't Need Us	295	(23)
Bill Joy
A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists	318	(5)
John Seely Brown
Paul Duguid
Part VIII Coda	323	(2)
In Touch at Last	325
Seth Shostak