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| Manny Mesthene directed the Harvard Program on Technology and Society from 1964 through 1974, following 11 years with the Rand Corporation and two years at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. After the Technology and Society Program closed, he joined Rutgers University in 1974, serving as the dean of Livingston College for several years, then as distinguished professor of philosophy and professor of management. Mesthene died in 1990. Among his books were Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society (1970) and How Language Makes Us Know (1964). |
Links:The ideas of Mesthene and Langdon Winner are compared in this preface to an information age anthology by Daniel S. Papp and David Alberts. It's posted on a site that supports the U.S. Department of Defense in improving its understanding of the national security implications of the Information Age.
John Dwyer's Notes on The Debate Over Technology Between Emmanuel Mesthene and John McDermott. On MindForce.net. These are lecture notes from a course at York University in Toronto, Canada. (Requires MS Internet Explorer or Netscape 6.0 or higher.)
Notes on Mesthene's "The Role of Technology in Society," by Gordon L. Ziniewicz.
Emmanuel Mesthene, "Technology and Religion." Full text of an address to theWorld Council Conference on Church and Society, Geneva, Switzerland, July1966.
Updated December 30, 2002