This diverse collection of readings by technology enthusiasts and critics introduces you to different philosophical approaches regarding the impact of technology, as well as specific technologies to give you a complete overview of technology today. INDICE: PART I: THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. .1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? - Leo Marx. .2. How Society Shapes Technology - Robert Pool. .3. What Technology Wants - Kevin Kelly. .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. .PART II: DEBATING TECHNOLOGY: 1960S STYLE. .7. The Role of Technology in Society - Emmanuel G. Mesthene. .8. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals - John McDermott. .PART 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 - John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. .11. Promise and Peril - Ray Kurzweil. .PART IV: CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGICAL DILEMMAS: CLIMATE CHANGE. .12. The Science Behind Climate Change - William Collins, Robert Colman, James Haywood, Martin R. Manning, and Philip Mote. .13. The Climate Science Isn't Settled - Richard S. Lindzen. .14. The Geoengineering Option; A Last Resort Against Global Warming? - David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbrunner, and Katharine Ricke. .15. 20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be a Bad Idea - Alan Robock. .PART V: CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGICAL DILEMMAS: THE NEW BIOLOGY. .16. Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide - Christopher Thomas Scott. .17.Applications, Benefits and Risks of Synthetic Biology - Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. .18. Five Hard Truths for Synthetic Biology - Roberta Kwok. .19. The Case Against Perfection - Michael J. Sandel. .20. Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience - Henry T. Greely. .PART VI: CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGICAL DILEMMAS: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY. .21. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 - Paul Ceruzzi. .22. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer - Wendell Berry. .23. Computer Ethics - Deborah G. Johnson. .24. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr. .25. Net Neutrality 101, Save the Internet.26. Managing Broadband Networks: A Policymaker's Guide - George Ou. .PART VII: GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATION. .27. Government and Technology - Albert H. Teich. .28. The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman.
- ISBN: 978-1-111-82856-1
- Editorial: South Western
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 23/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés