Society, ethics, and technology / [edited by] Mort Winston, Ralph Edelbach.
Material type: TextPublisher: Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xxxiv, 259 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0534509509
- 9780534509507
- 303.483
- T14.5. S6385 1999
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Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction -- Part I. Perspectives on Technology -- Historical Perspectives -- I.1. A Short History of the World -- I.2. The Act of Invention -- I.3. Industrial Society and Technological Systems -- Social Perspectives -- I.4. The World Economy -- I.5. Women and the Assessment of Technology -- I.6. Invisible Technologies -- I.7. I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture -- I.8. Revenge Theory -- I.9. Artifacts/Ideas and Political Culture -- Philosophical Perspectives -- I.10. Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics -- I.11. Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights -- I.12. Technology and Social Justice -- I.13. The Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics -- Part II. Contemporary Fields of Technology -- Automation and Work -- II.1. The End of Work -- Computer and Information Technology -- II.2. The Global Information Highway: Project for an Ungovernable World -- II.3. Information and Our Interactive Future -- II.4. Computers and Privacy -- II.5. The Constitution in Cyberspace -- Biotechnology -- II.6. Reproductive Technology: Delivered into Men's Hands -- II.7. Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning -- II.8. Biotechnology to the Rescue? Ten Reasons Why Biotechnology Is Incompatible with Sustainable Agriculture -- Population and Environment -- II.9. Sustaining Life on the Earth -- II.10. Building a New Economy -- II.11. The Tragedy of the Commons -- II.12. Power Shock: The Next Energy Revolution.
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