Technology and social change.
By: Edited with an introd. by Wilbert E. Moore.
Publisher: Quadrangle Books
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Technology -- Social aspects -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: "A New York times book."
Table of contents: title: Can science bring us happiness? By W. F. Ogburn.; title: The science to save us from science, by B. Russell.; title: Does human nature change in a technological revolution? By K. Keniston.; title: Pattern for tomorrow's industry? By A. H. Raskin.; title: Automation is here to liberate us, by E. Hoffer.; title: Myth of the new leisure class, by D. Dempsey.; title: The farm revolution picks up speed, by V. Vine.; title: Understanding McLuhan (in part) by R. Kostelanetz.; title: McLuhan weighs aimless violence, by J. Leo.; title: The past century; title: and the next; title: in science, by W. Kaempffert.; title: Science looks at life in 2057 A.D.; title: It's halfway to 1984, by J. Lukacs.; title: They live in the year 2000, by W. H. Honan.; title: Third great revolution of mankind, by C. Frankel.; title: Not the age of atoms but of welfare for all, by A. J. Toynbee.; title: "1984" could be a good year, by J. Bronowski.; title: "Hamlet" vs. the laws of thermodynamics, by B. Blanshard.; title: In defense of American "materialism," by B. Atkinson.; title: We have changed; title: and must, by H. S. Commager.; title: The "equality" revolution, by H. J. Gans.; title: What kind of nation are we? By A. Hacker.; title: Bibliography (p. [229]-231)