Controlling technology contemporary issues
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| Format: | 991009677238906719 |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
Prometheus Books
1991
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Table of Contents:
- Conté: The fate of the earth / Jonathan Schell
- Can technology replace social engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg
- A technology of behavior / B. F. Skinner
- Defining technique / Jacques Ellul
- Technology: practice and culture / Arnold Pacey
- Trapped in the 'NASA-Spak' machine / Jack Beatty
- The autonomy of technique / Jacques Ellul
- Toward a philosophy of technology / Hans Jonas
- Reverse adaptation and control / Langdon Winner
- The ruination of the tomato / Mark Kramer
- In praise of technology
- Samuel C. Florman
- Technology and human values / Melvin Kranzberg
- The role of technology in society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene
- Is technology autonomous? / Michael Goldhaber
- The secret behind Star Wars / William J. Broad
- Do machines make history? / Robert Heilbroner
- Social choice in machine design: the case of automatically controlled machine tools, and a challenge for labor / David F. Noble
- Presumed neutrality of technology / Norman Balabanian
- The great transportation conspiracy / Jonathan Kwitny
- The politicall impact of technical expertise / Dorothy Nelkin
- Technē snd politeia: the technical constitution of society / Langdon Winner
- Estranged labor / Karl Marx
- Workin / Studs Terkel
- Alienation and freedom / Robert Blauner
- Scientific management / Harry Braverman
- Authoritarian and democratic technics / Lewis Mumford
- The american ideal of a democratic technology / Carroll Pursell
- Buddhist economics / E. F. Schumacher
- Small is dubious / Samuel C. Florman
- Appropriate technology and inappropriate politics / Thomas Simon
- The final constraints / Barbara Ward
- The problems of mankind's survival / Mikhail S. Gorbachev
- Cultural revolution / Arnold Pacey
