Technology and the Future: Contents

Technology and the Future, 7th Edition

Albert H. Teich, editor

Preface

Part I. THINKNG ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress?

Leo Marx

2. The Powershift Era

Alvin Toffler

3. Technopoly: The Broken Defenses

Neil Postman

4. The Technological Torrent

Thomas P. Hughes

5. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering?

Alvin M. Weinberg

6. The Role of Technology in Society

Emmanuel G. Mesthene

7. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals

John McDermott

8. Technology and the Tragic View

Samuel C. Florman

Part II. FORECASTING, ASSESSING, AND CONTROLLING THE IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY

9. Great Expectations: Why Technology Predictions Go Awry

Herb Brody

10. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985

Paul Ceruzzi

11. Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies

Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse

12. Women and the Assessment of Technology

Corlann Gee Bush

13. Controlling Technology

Allan C. Mazur

Part III. RESHAPING TECHNOLOGY

14. Buddhist Economics

E. F. Schumacher

15. Can Technology Be Humane?

Paul Goodman

16. Technological Politics as if Democracy Really Mattered

Richard Sclove

17. Toward Human-Centered Design

Donald A. Norman

18. Feminist Perspectives on Technology

Judy Wajcman

19. Science, Technoloy, and Black Community Development

Robert C. Johnson

20. Artifact/Ideas and Political Culture

Langdon Winner

Part IV. USING TECHNOLOGIES AND CONFRONTING THEIR DILEMMAS

21. The Dark Side of the Genome

Robert A. Weinberg

22. Computer Ethics

Tom Forester and Perry Morrison

23. Identity in the Age of the Internet

Sherry Turkle

24. Less Work for Mother?

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

25. In the Age of the Smart Machine

Shoshana Zuboff

26. Packing Tips for Your Trip (to the Year 2195)

Douglas Coupland

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