Title: Society and technological change /
Authors: Volti, Rudi.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Technology Social aspects; Technological innovations Social aspects
Contents: pt. 1. Orientations -- Nature of technology -- Winners and losers: the differential effects of technological change -- What technology can do, and what it cannot do -- pt. 2. The process of technological change -- Sources of Technological change -- Scientific knowledge and technological advance -- The diffusion of technology -- Technology, energy and the environment -- Medical and biological technologies -- pt. 3. Technology and the transformation of work -- Work in nonindustrial societies -- Technology and jobs: technological change and life on the job -- pt. 4. Communication -- Printing -- Electronic media -- pt. 5. The tools of destruction -- Weapons and their consequences -- How new weapons emerge and how they may be contained -- pt. 6. The shaping and control of technology -- Technology and its creators -- Organizations and technological change -- Government and the control of technology.