The first edition of Technology and Man's Future was a gamble for St. Martin's Press -- an unknown author in a little-known field.  Its success prompted the publisher to invite me to prepare a revised edition for which they provided a more artistic cover and a more generous page budget. Half of the 22 chapters in the second edition were new and many of the additions reflected growing interest in technology assessment as a means of anticipating and controlling the social consequences of new technologies.  Other noteworthy features included an excerpt from The Limits to Growth, which had stirred up a major controversy in the mid-1970s, and an essay by Langdon Winner, whose writings have appeared in all subsequent editions.

Introduction

1.  Scientists, Technologists, and the Future

Forecasts of Some Technological and Scientific Developments and Their Societal Consequences
    Theodore J. Gordon and Robert H. Ament

Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?
    Alvin M. Weinberg

Pure Technology
    "Daedalus of New Scientist"

Reflections of a Working Scientist
    Steven Weinberg

Technology and the Limits to Growth
    Donella H. Meadows, et al.

Malthus with a Computer
    Christopher Freeman

2.  Philosophers of the Technological Age

from Understanding Media
    Marshall McLuhan

The New Forms of Control
    Herbert Marcuse

from The Technological Society
    Jacques Ellul

from Utopia or Oblivion
    R. Buckminster Fuller

The Role of Technology in Society
    Emmanuel G. Mesthene

Technology:  The Opiate of the Intellectuals
    John McDermott

Can Technology Be Humane?
    Paul Goodman

3.  Toward Assessment and Control

Technology:  Processes of Assessment and Choice
    Harvey Brooks and Raymond Bowers

The Role of Technology Assessment in Public Policy
    Hugh Folk

Technology Assessment
    Joseph F. Coates

Organization and Operations of the Office of Technology Assessment
    from the 1976 OTA Annual Report

Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems
    U.S. Office of Technology Assessment

Technological Forecasting in Technology Assessment
    David M. Kiefer

Technology Assessment and Social Control
    Michael S. Baram

Participatory Technology
    James D. Carroll

On Criticizing Technology
    Langdon Winner

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