Society, Ethics, and Technology

by Winston, Morton; Edelbach, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780534505813
• ISBN10: 0534505813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-10
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This anthology presents a variety of historical, social, and philosophical perspectives on technological change and its social consequences, stressing the manner in which technological innovation creates new ethical problems for human civilization.

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
How to Use This Book	xvii
Introduction: Morton Winston. ``Children of Invention''	1	(20)
Part I: Perspectives on Technological Society	21	(142)
Historical Perspectives
Homo Sapiens	22	(16)
J. M. Roberts
The Act of Invention	38	(10)
Lynn White, Jr.
Giving Up the Gun	48	(4)
Noel Perrin
Industrial Society and Technological Systems	52	(17)
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Social Perspectives
Women and the Assessment of Technology	69	(14)
Corlann Gee Bush
Invisible Technologies	83	(10)
Neil Postman
I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture	93	(9)
Richard E. Sclove
Revenge Theory	102	(5)
Edward Tenner
Artifacts/Ideas and Political Culture	107	(7)
Langdon Winner
Philosophical Perspectives
Techonolgy and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics	114	(11)
Hans Jonas
Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights	125	(13)
Robert E. McGinn
Technology and Social Justice	138	(10)
Freeman Dyson
Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics	148	(11)
David Strong
The New Luddite Challenge	159	(4)
Ray Kurzweil
Part II Contemporary Technologies and the Future	163	(160)
Information, Automation, and the Global Economy
The End of Work	164	(7)
Jeremy Rifkin
The Global Information Highway	171	(10)
Herbert Schiller
International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization	181	(7)
Jeffrey Sachs
The One Best Way	188	(11)
Virginia Postrel
Computers, Communications, and Robotics
Information and Our Interactive Future	199	(6)
Bill Gates
Computer and Privacy	205	(18)
Stacey L. Edgar
The Constitution in Cyberspace	223	(8)
Laurence H. Tribe
Universal Robots	231	(10)
Hans Moravec
Biotechnology and Human Reproduction
Frankenstein's Monster and Other Horror Stories	241	(5)
Enzo Russo
David Cove
Biocaptalism: What Price the Genetic Revolution?	246	(7)
David Shenk
Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning	253	(6)
Robert Wachbroit
Reproductive Technology: Delivered in to Men's Hands	259	(16)
Judy Wajcman
Population, Energy, and Environmental Policy
Power Shock: The Energy Revolution	275	(9)
Christopher Flavin
The Tragedy of the Commons	284	(10)
Garrett Hardin
Sustaining Life on the Earth	294	(8)
Robert W. Kates
Building a New Economy	302	(21)
Lester Brown
Jennifer Mitchell
Selected Bibliography of Books for Further Reading	323