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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rudi Volti |
| ISBN: | 0312096429 9780312096427 |
| OCLC Number: | 31956823 |
| Description: | xvi, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Orientations -- Nature of technology -- Winners and losers: the differential effects of technological change -- What technology can do, and what it cannot do -- pt. 2. The process of technological change -- Sources of Technological change -- Scientific knowledge and technological advance -- The diffusion of technology -- Technology, energy and the environment -- Medical and biological technologies -- pt. 3. Technology and the transformation of work -- Work in nonindustrial societies -- Technology and jobs: technological change and life on the job -- pt. 4. Communication -- Printing -- Electronic media -- pt. 5. The tools of destruction -- Weapons and their consequences -- How new weapons emerge and how they may be contained -- pt. 6. The shaping and control of technology -- Technology and its creators -- Organizations and technological change -- Government and the control of technology. |
| Other Titles: | Society & technological change. |
| Responsibility: | Rudi Volti. |
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