TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katz,Eric
AU  - Light,Andrew
AU  - Thompson,William B.
TI  - Controlling technology: contemporary issues 
SN  - 1573929832
AV  - T185 .C68 2003
U1  - 303.483 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Amherst, NY
PB  - Prometheus Books
KW  - Technology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Pt. 1; The Modern Predicament --; 1; The Fate of the Earth; Jonathan Schell --; 2; Why McDonald's French Fries Taste So Good; Eric Schlosser --; Pt. 2; Defining Technology --; 3; Technology: Practice and Culture; Arnold Pacey --; 4; Defining Technique; Jacques Ellul --; 5; The Knowing World of Things; David Baird --; 6; The Device Paradigm; Albert Borgmann --; Pt. 3; The Blessings of Technology --; 7; Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?; Alvin M. Weinberg --; 8; The Role of Technology in Society; Emmanuel G. Mesthene --; 9; Technology and Culture in a Developing Country; Kwame Gyekye --; Pt. 4; The Autonomy of Technology and Its Philosophical Critics --; 10; The Autonomy of Technique; Jacques Ellul --; 11; Toward a Philosophy of Technology; Hans Jonas --; 12; Reverse Adaptation and Control; Langdon Winner --; 13; Artifacts, Neutrality, and the Ambiguity of "Use"; Russell Woodruff --; 14; In Praise of Technology; Samuel C. Florman --; 15; The Autonomy of Technology; Joseph C. Pitt --; Pt. 5; Demystifying Autonomous Technology Through the History of Technology --; 16; Is Technology Autonomous?; Michael Goldhaber --; 17; Do Machines Make History?; Robert Heilbroner --; 18; Social Choice in Machine Design: The Case of Automatically Controlled Machine Tools, and a Challenge for Labor; David F. Noble --; 19; Technological Momentum; Thomas P. Hughes --; 20; The Ruination of the Tomato; Mark Kramer --; Pt. 6; Technology, Ethics, and Politics --; 21; Presumed Neutrality of Technology; Norman Balabanian --; 22; Technology and Politics in Totalitarian Regimes; Paul R. Josephson --; 23; The Political Impact of Technical Expertise; Dorothy Nelkin --; 24; From Information to Communication: The French Experience with Videotex; Andrew Feenberg --; 25; Citizen Virtues in a Technological Order; Langdon Winner --; 26; Technological Ethics in a Different Voice; Diane Michelfelder --; Pt. 7; Appropriate Technology --; 27; Authoritarian and Democratic Technics; Lewis Mumford --; 28; Less Work for Mother?; Ruth Schwartz Cowan --; 29; Appropriate Technology and Inappropriate Politics; Thomas Simon --; Pt. 8; Computers, Information, and Virtual Reality --; 30; Technorealism: An Overview; David Shenk --; 31; The Computerized Office: Productivity Puzzles; Edward Tenner --; 32; Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace; Gordon Graham --; 33; Technologies of the Individual: Women and Subjectivity in the Age of Information; Suzanne K. Damarin --; 34; Information and Reality; Albert Borgmann
N2  - "Controlling Technology brings together widely conflicting views concerning the nature of modern technology as it relates to the quality of everyday life and to the larger problem of human survival on this planet. The thesis that technology has indeed become autonomous is contrasted with the position that, by its very nature, technology can only exist under human control. Thirty-four insightful essays are divided into eight parts, each with its own introduction summarizing the chapters and placing them in their appropriate contexts." "This excellent collection of essays will be of great value for students, professionals, and all those interested in technology, the human values it affects, and the social dimensions of its use, and will appeal to anyone who has every paused to consider the every-expanding role technology plays in modern society." "Included are works by renowned scholars Jacques Ellul, Lewis Mumford, Albert Borgmann, Langdon Winner, Thomas Hughes, Andrew Feenberg, Samuel Florman, Arnold Pacey, Hans Jonas, Dorothy Nelkin, and many others."--BOOK JACKET
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