Society, Ethics, and Technology

This anthology presents a variety of historical, social, and philosophical perspectives on technological change and its social consequences, stressing the manner in which technological innovation creates new ethical problems for human civilization.

Preface

xv

How to Use This Book

xvii

Introduction: Morton Winston. ``Children of Invention''

1

(20)

Part I: Perspectives on Technological Society

21

(142)

Historical Perspectives

Homo Sapiens

22

(16)

J. M. Roberts

The Act of Invention

38

(10)

Lynn White, Jr.

Giving Up the Gun

48

(4)

Noel Perrin

Industrial Society and Technological Systems

52

(17)

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Social Perspectives

Women and the Assessment of Technology

69

(14)

Corlann Gee Bush

Invisible Technologies

83

(10)

Neil Postman

I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture

93

(9)

Richard E. Sclove

Revenge Theory

102

(5)

Edward Tenner

Artifacts/Ideas and Political Culture

107

(7)

Langdon Winner

Philosophical Perspectives

Techonolgy and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics

114

(11)

Hans Jonas

Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights

125

(13)

Robert E. McGinn

Technology and Social Justice

138

(10)

Freeman Dyson

Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics

148

(11)

David Strong

The New Luddite Challenge

159

(4)

Ray Kurzweil

Part II Contemporary Technologies and the Future

163

(160)

Information, Automation, and the Global Economy

The End of Work

164

(7)

Jeremy Rifkin

The Global Information Highway

171

(10)

Herbert Schiller

International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization

181

(7)

Jeffrey Sachs

The One Best Way

188

(11)

Virginia Postrel

Computers, Communications, and Robotics

Information and Our Interactive Future

199

(6)

Bill Gates

Computer and Privacy

205

(18)

Stacey L. Edgar

The Constitution in Cyberspace

223

(8)

Laurence H. Tribe

Universal Robots

231

(10)

Hans Moravec

Biotechnology and Human Reproduction

Frankenstein's Monster and Other Horror Stories

241

(5)

Enzo Russo

David Cove

Biocaptalism: What Price the Genetic Revolution?

246

(7)

David Shenk

Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning

253

(6)

Robert Wachbroit

Reproductive Technology: Delivered in to Men's Hands

259

(16)

Judy Wajcman

Population, Energy, and Environmental Policy

Power Shock: The Energy Revolution

275

(9)

Christopher Flavin

The Tragedy of the Commons

284

(10)

Garrett Hardin

Sustaining Life on the Earth

294

(8)

Robert W. Kates

Building a New Economy

302

(21)

Lester Brown

Jennifer Mitchell

Selected Bibliography of Books for Further Reading

323

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