Shaping Better Technologies

by Kornwachs, Klaus; Hronszky, Imre

• ISBN13: 9783825897574
• ISBN10: 3825897575
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-07
• Publisher: Lit Verlag

Summary

A fundamental understanding of technology and its multifaceted interaction with human existence is the subject of this book. Klaus Kornwachs is director of the Chair for Philosophy of Technology at Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus (Germany). Imre Hronszky is director of the Department for Innovations Studies and History of Technology at the Budapest University for Technology and Economy (Hungary).

Table of Contents

Shaping better technologies - an introduction	p. 7
How to deal with machinery - some basics in the history of industrial safety and health shaping technology today	p. 15
Demography, aging and high tech - the case of software developers	p. 31
Technological innovation of a city quarter - Kobanya at the end of the millennium	p. 45
Globalization and localization in view of technological development	p. 61
Is engineering education facing basic new requirements?	p. 71
Human attitudes towards environmental issues at the millennium turn	p. 85
The impact of genetic engineering on society : health, justice and reproduction choice	p. 109
Data flow in Europe - free and safe : the case of digital signature	p. 121
Does following ethical norms for the selection and transfer of scientific and technical knowledge help shaping better technologies? - a work program	p. 135
Handling knowledge in a wired world	p. 143
Change in model of technology policy	p. 159
Humans or software - who or what will be able to defend cyberspace?	p. 171
Shaping better technologies through constructive technology assessment : on the Danish case	p. 179
Science and technology policy in the sustainable development of hungary	p. 195
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