Technology and the Future

TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE offers an unsurpassed collection of readings on how technology shapes society while itself being shaped by social trends. It presents a balanced view, including critics of technology as well as technological enthusiasts. By including both philosophical approaches, as well as discussions of such specific technologies as information technology and biotechnology, this text offers a unique and unparalleled overview of technology today.

Topical Contents

xi

About the Editor

xv

Preface

xvii

Part I Thinking about Technology

1

(46)

Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?

3

(10)

Leo Marx

How Society Shapes Technology

13

(10)

Robert Pool

Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?

23

(8)

Alvin M. Weinberg

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

31

(6)

Wendell Berry

Technology and the Tragic View

37

(10)

Samuel C. Florman

Part II Debating Technology: 1960s Style

47

(22)

The Role of Technology in Society

49

(10)

Emmanuel G. Mesthene

Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals

59

(10)

John McDermott

Part III Alternative Perspectives on Technology

69

(96)

Buddhist Economics

71

(7)

E. F. Schumacher

Can Technology Be Humane?

78

(13)

Paul Goodman

Technological Politics As If Democracy Really Mattered

91

(18)

Richard Sclove

Western Colonization of the Future

109

(10)

Ziauddin Sardar

Black Futurists in the Information Age

119

(16)

Timothy L. Jenkins

Feminist Perspectives on Technology

135

(13)

Judy Wajcman

Do Artifacts Have Politics?

148

(17)

Langdon Winner

Part IV Dilemmas of New Technology: Vulnerability

165

(20)

Terrorism and Brittle Technology

167

(5)

Amory B. Lovins

L. Hunter Lovins

Technological Vulnerability

172

(13)

Brian Martin

Part V Dilemmas of New Technology: Bioethics

185

(44)

The Dark Side of the Genome

187

(9)

Robert A. Weinberg

Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research

196

(4)

President George W. Bush

Hard Cell: A Commentary on the President's Stem Cell Address

200

(9)

Thomas H. Murray

The Wisdom of Repugnance

209

(16)

Leon R. Kass

Science Fiction: A Comment on Leon Kass's Bioethics

225

(4)

Jerome Groopman

Part VI Dilemmas of New Technology: Computers and Information

229

(64)

An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985

231

(11)

Paul Ceruzzi

Computer Ethics

242

(16)

Tom Forester

Perry Morrison

The Internet Under Siege

258

(10)

Lawrence Lessig

In the Age of the Smart Machine

268

(8)

Shoshana Zuboff

The Logistics of Techno-War

276

(17)

Gene I. Rochlin

Part VII Debating Technology: 21st Century Style

293

(30)

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

295

(23)

Bill Joy

A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists

318

(5)

John Seely Brown

Paul Duguid

Part VIII Coda

323

(2)

In Touch at Last

325

Seth Shostak

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