An anthology looking at how controversial technologies affect society, and how society shapes the development of technology. Part I: Thinking About Technology. -- 1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? / Leo Marx -- 2. How Society Shapes Technology / Robert Pool -- 3. Technology of Shoelaces / Edward Tenner -- 4. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- 5. Technology and the Tragic View / Samuel C. Florman -- 6. Do Artifacts Have Politics? / Langdon Winner -- 7. Shock of the Old / David Edgerton -- Part II: Debating Technology: 1960'S Style. -- 8. Role of Technology in Society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- 9. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals / John McDermott -- Part III: Debating Technology: 21st Century Style. -- 10. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us / Bill Joy -- 11. Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists / John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid -- 12. Promise and Peril / Ray Kurzweil -- Part IV: Technological Dilemmas of the 21st Century. -- 13. Science Behind Climate Change / William Collins ... et al. -- 14. How to Protect Against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks / The 9-11 Commission. -- 15. Civil Liberties in a Time of Crisis / James X. Dempsey -- 16. Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide / Christopher Thomas Scott -- 17. And Baby Makes Three--or Four, or Five, or Six: Defining the Family After the Genetic Revolution / R. Alta Charo -- 18. Case Against Perfection / Michael J. Sandel -- 19. Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience / Henry T. Greely -- Part V: Social and Ethical Issues in Information and Communciations Technology. -- 20. Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 / Paul Ceruzzi -- 21. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer / Wendell Berry -- 22. Computer Ethics / Deborah G. Johnson -- 23. Internet Under Siege / Lawrence Lessig -- 24. Humpty Dumpty Problem / Mitchell Kapor -- 25. Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob / Lee Siegel -- Part VI: Governing Technology. -- 26. Government and Technology / Albert H. Teich -- 27. Governance Challenges of Technological Revolutions / Francis Fukuyama and Caroline Wagner.
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2008935958[edited by] Albert H. Teich.ill. ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references.
