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