Technology and society
Subtitle: classic and contemporary readings
By: Richard Bilsker
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dubuque, IA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780757573002
Subjects: Technology; Philosophy; Social aspects
Table of contents: title: Plato; title: Phaedrus  -- Aristotle; title: Politics  -- Mo Tzu; title: Economy of Expenditures I and II  -- Chuang Tzu -- Argument: The Pre-Eminence of Tao / -- Augustine of Hippo; title: City of God  -- Francis Bacon; title: New Atlantis  -- Adam Smith; title: Wealth of Nations  -- Lord Byron; title: debate on the Frame-Work Bill, . in the House of Lords, February 27, 1812  -- Andrew Ure; title: The Philosophy of Manufactures, 1835  -- Karl Marx; title: The Machine versus the Worker  -- Samuel Butler; title: Darwin among the Machines  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Works and Days  -- Mark Twain; title: My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale  -- E.M. Forster; title: The Machine Stops  -- Thorstein Veblen; title: The Instinct of Workmanship  -- Lewis Mumford; title: The Monastery and the Clock  -- E.F. Schumacher; title: Buddhist Economics  -- Langdon Winner; title: Do Artifacts Have Politics?  -- Ruth Schwarz Cowan; title: how the Refrigerator Got Its hum  -- Albert Borgmann; title: The Moral Significance of Material Culture  -- Robert E. McGinn; title: Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights  -- Monty Neill; title: Computers, Thinking, and Schools in the "New Word Economic Order"  -- Bill Joy; title: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us  -- Ray Kurzweil; title: Promise and Peril: Genetics, Nano technology, and Robotics in the 21st Century  -- Francis Fukuyama; title: The Prolongation of Life --; title: John A. Bargh and Katelyn Y.A. McKenna --; title: The Internet and Social Life  -- Torin Monahan; title: Questioning Surveillance and Security  -- Judy Wajcman; title: From Women and Technology to Gendered Technoscience  -- Michael Bess; title: Icarus 2.0: A Historian's Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement.