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Technology and the Future, 8th Edition
Albert H. Teich, editor

Table of Contents and Links to Information about Authors

Preface
Topical Contents

About the Author

Part I. THINKNG ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?
Leo Marx
2. Technopoly: The Broken Defenses
Neil Postman
3. Technological Momentum  (NEW)
Thomas P. Hughes
4. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?
Alvin M. Weinberg
5.  Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer (BACK FROM THE 6th EDITION)
Wendell Berry
6. Technology and the Tragic View
Samuel C. Florman
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. ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY

9. Buddhist Economics
E. F. Schumacher
10. Can Technology Be Humane?
Paul Goodman
11. Technological Politics as if Democracy Really Mattered
Richard Sclove
12. Black Futurists in the Information Age (NEW)
Timothy L. Jenkins
13. Feminist Perspectives on Technology
Judy Wajcman
14. Do Artifacts Have Politics? (NEW)
Langdon Winner

Part IV. ENVISIONING THE FUTURE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

15.  The Year 2000:  A View from 1967 (NEW)
Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener
16. Great Expectations: Why Technology Predictions Go Awry
Herb Brody
17. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985
Paul Ceruzzi
18. One Hundred Seven Assumptions About the Future (NEW)
Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, and Andy Hines

Part V. DILEMMAS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY I:  GENETICS

19. The Dark Side of the Genome
Robert A. Weinberg
20. And Baby Makes Three -- Or Four, Five, or Six:  Defining the Family
      after the Genetic Revolution (NEW)
R. Alta Charo
21.  The Wisdom of Repugnance (NEW)
Leon R. Kass

Part VI. DILEMMAS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY II:  THE INFORMATION AGE

22. Computer Ethics
Tom Forester and Perry Morrison
23. Electronic Privacy in the Twenty-First Century (NEW)
Fred H. Cate
24. In the Age of the Smart Machine
Shoshana Zuboff

Part VII. DEBATING TECHNOLOGY:  TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM STYLE

25. Being Digital (NEW)
Nicholas Negroponte
26. Being Analog (NEW)
Donald A. Norman

Part VIII. CODA

27. Packing Tips for Your Trip (to the Year 2195)
Douglas Coupland

Updated January 5, 2001
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