Technology & the future

Teich, Albert H. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781111828547
ISBN: 1111828547
Physical Description: print
xix, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: 12th ed.
Publisher: Boston, MA : /Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, ©2013.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I Thinking About Technology -- 1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? / Leo Marx -- 2. How Society Shapes Technology / Robert Pool -- 3. The Shock of the Old / David Edgerton -- 4. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- 5. Technology and the Tragic View / Samuel C. Flonnan -- 6. Do Artifacts Have Politics? / Langdon Winner -- pt. II Debating Technology: 1960s Style -- 7. The Role of Technology in Society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- 8. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals / John McDermott -- pt. III Debating Technology: Twenty-First-Century Style -- 9. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us / Bill Joy -- 10.A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists / Paul Duguid -- 11. Promise and Peril / Ray Kurzweil -- pt. IV Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Climate Change -- 12. The Science Behind Climate Change / Philip Mote -- 13. The Climate Science Isn't Settled / Richard S. Lindzen.