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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Technology and society. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009 (OCoLC)615089368 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah G Johnson; Jameson M Wetmore |
| ISBN: | 0262101246 9780262101240 0262600730 9780262600736 |
| OCLC Number: | 191024170 |
| Description: | xv, 623 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | VISIONS OF A TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE: "Technology and Social Justice" / Freeman J. Dyson -- "The Machine Stops" / E.M. Forster -- "The Prolongation of Life" / Francis Fukuyama -- "Reproductive Ectogenesis: The Third Era of Human Reproduction and Some Moral Consequences" / Stellan Welin -- "Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom" / Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology -- "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" / Bill Joy -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: "Do Machines Make History?" / Robert L. Heilbroner -- "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts" / Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker -- "Technological Momentum" / Thomas P. Hughes -- "Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts" / Bruno Latour -- "Code Is Law" / Lawrence Lessig -- "The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology" / Patrick D. Hopkins -- TECHNOLOGY AND VALUES: "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" / Langdon Winner -- "Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots" / George Ritzer -- White / Richard Dyer -- "Manufacturing Gender in Commercial and Military Cockpit Design" / Rachel N. Weber -- "Pas de Trois: Science, Technology, and the Marketplace" / Daniel Sarewitz -- "Amish Technology: Reinforcing Values and Building Community" / Jameson M. Wetmore -- THE COMPLEX NATURE OF SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS: "Will Small Be Beautiful? Making Policies for Our Nanotech Future" / W. Patrick McCray -- "Sociotechnical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall" / Dominique Vinck -- "The Naked Launch: Assigning Blame for the Challenger Explosion" / Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch -- "Bodies, Machines, and Male Power" / M. Carme Alemany Gomez -- "Crash!: Nuclear Fuel Flasks and Anti-Misting Kerosene on Trial" / Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch -- "When Is a Work Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development" / Neil Pollock -- TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CHALLENGES: "Shaping Technology for the 'Good Life': The Technological Imperative versus the Social Imperative" / Gary Chapman -- "The Feminization of Work in the Information Age" / Judy Wajcman -- "Nanotechnology and the Developing World" / Fabio Salamanca-Buentello, Deepa L. Persad, Erin B. Court, Douglas K. Martin, Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer -- "Nanotechnology and the Developing World: Will Nanotechnology Overcome Poverty or Widen Disparities?" / Noela Invernizzi and Guillermo Foladori -- "People's Science in Action: The Politics of Protest and Knowledge Brokering in India" / Roopali Phadke -- "Security Trade-Offs Are Subjective" and "Technology Creates Security Imbalances" / Bruce Schneier -- "Questioning Surveillance and Security" / Torin Monahan -- Energy, Society, and Environment: Technology for a Sustainable Future / David Elliott -- Introduction to Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy / Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette -- "Icarus 2.0: A Historian's Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement" / Michael Bess. |
| Series Title: | Inside technology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore. |
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" Technology and Society is a highly readable book, mostly useful at the undergraduate level for its applied focus on future and values. The different textual genres serve well the ambition to make STS perspectives relevant in policy and in sociocultural negotiations about technopolitics. Technology and Society will encourage its audience to become concerned about its global sociotechnical future, and hopefully to feel empowered for this task." Isabelle Dussauge Technology and Culture Read more...
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