Technology and the Future, 7th Edition
Albert H. Teich, editor
Author Links
Updated January 2, 1998
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Chapter Authors and Editor
Herb Brody
Herb Brody is an editor with the journal Technology
Review. A number of his articles can found on its website, including
"Internet@crossroads,"
which appeared in the May 1995 issue and "Wired
Science," (October 1996) which discusses how the Internet, a product
of research, is affecting the course of research itself..
Corlann Gee Bush
Corlann "Corky" Bush is director of affirmative action programs at Montana
State University--Bozeman. She previously served as assistant dean
of students at University of Idaho in Moscow and donated her a collection
of her papers and correspondence to the University of Idaho library in
1985. The library's site includes her
biography and a list of the materials included in the collection, mainly
related to her work on women's issues. Bush is the author of Taking
Hold of Technology and has written and spoken widely on the impact
of technology on women's lives.
Paul Ceruzzi
Paul Ceruzzi is a curator in the Department of Space History in the
National Air and Space Museum in Washington,
D.C. His
curriculum vitae and information about his recent book, Landmarks
in Digital Computing, can be found on its website. An expert in
the history of computing, Ceruzzi manages a listserv
on this subject for the Society for the History of Technology.
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland is the author of three novels -- Generation X,
Shampoo Planet, and Microserfs -- as well as two collections
of short stories. He also writes for Wired
magazine. Coupland has his own, very
stylish, website, well worth a visit by those who enjoy his writing.
Two rather good Coupland sites that had been put up by fans seem to have
disappeared (as of August 1997), but there is still quite a bit of Coupland
material on the web, including
an interview by Alexander Laurence (undated, but apparently conducted
prior to June 1995). One thing you will not find on these sites
is the article included in Technology and the Future, since it was
published under the pseudonym of Sandra Noguchi.
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Ruth Schwartz Cowan is professor of history at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook. She is author of More Work for Mother
(1983) and The Social History of American Technology (1997). Her
department's on-line faculty directory contains a short
listing, including a picture of Cowan.
Samuel C. Florman
Sam Florman is a writer as a well as a practicing engineer and vice
president of Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company in Scarsdale, New
York. Florman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Here's the Academy's
announcement, which notes the basis of his election. One of Florman's
earlier writings is quoted favorably in this article from the June
1995 issue of the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, a publication
of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Tom Forester
Until his death in late 1993, Tom Forester was a senior lecturer in
the School of Computer and Information Technology at Griffith University
in Queensland, Australia. He was author or editor of seven books on social
aspects of computing, including Computer
Ethics, from which the selection in Technology and the Future
is taken.
Paul Goodman
Goodman was a philosopher and humanist, anarchist who wrote about everything
from community planning to gestalt therapy. To receive a description of
a book of his writings entitled Format and Anxiety: Paul Goodman Critiques
the Media edited by Taylor Stoehr, send an e-mail message to Marginal
Distribution, an on-line service that markets books for small presses
and independent publishers. You can pick up a small
black & white photo of Goodman (about 4K) from an archive at the
University of Michigan on this link. An article
by Goodman on education can be found on the website of Freedom,
a British anarchist magazine.
Thomas P. Hughes
Thomas Hughes is Emeritus Professor in the Department
of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert C. Johnson
A scholar, researcher, and writer, Robert C. Johnson is currently professor
and director of minority
studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, where he conducts
math and science programs to increase the interest of women and people
of color in scientific and technical careers.
Leo Marx
Leo Marx is William R. Kenan Professor of American Cultural History
Emeritus at MIT. A number of Marx's books are carried by the MIT Press
Bookstore in Cambridge, Mass. Here is a
listing, including brief descriptions.
Allan C. Mazur
Allan Mazur is professor of sociology at Syracuse University. This link
will take you to a description of Allan Mazur's 1991 book, Global
Social Problems on the publisher's website. A recent article by
Mazur on the global warming controversy entitled "The
Inevitability--and Limits--of Dissent" appears online in 21st C, a
publication of Columbia University. Mazur is a member of the "Global
Collaboratory" at Syracuse's Maxwell School. A bit of information
about him and a picture can be found within its site. Here is Mazur's
article entitled "Technical
Risk in the Mass Media," published on-line by the Franklin
Pierce Law Center.
John McDermott
At the time his article, "Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals,"
was published, McDermott was on the faculty in the Department of Labor
Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Information
on his book, The
Crisis in the Working Class and Some Arguments for a New Labor Movement
(Boston: South End Press, 1980) may be found on the site of the Economic
Policy Institute.
Emmanuel G. Mesthene
Manny Mesthene directed the Harvard Program on Technology and Society
from 1964 through 1974, following 11 years with the Rand Corporation. 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).
Joseph G. Morone
Joseph G. Morone is Dean of the Lally
School of Management and Technology at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute) in Troy, New York. The Lally School's approach to management
education is described as "No
More Business As Usual" in this article from the December 1995 issue
of Rensselaer's alumni magazine. At the time he and Ned Woodhouse wrote
"Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies," Morone was with the Corporate
R&D Department of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New
York. He served as an Industrial Research Institute fellow at the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy in 1984.
Perry Morrison
Perry Morrison lectures on psychology at the National
University of Singapore. He is involved there in research in human
factors engineering and ergonomics. He is coauthor, with Tom Forester of
Computer
Ethics, published by MIT Press.
Donald A. Norman
Aptly described as a technological "guru," Don Norman has an unsually
interesting personal homepage.
Here's a profile
of Norman, from Voyager, which has published his work on CD-ROM and
on diskette in the form of "expanded books." Finally, here's a review
of Norman's book Things That Make Us Smart by Gary Dickelman
of the Bureau of National Affairs.
Neil Postman
Neil Postman is chair of the Department
of Culture and Communication at New York University's School of Education
and a well-known writer and media critic. References to him can be found
in many places on the Web. A
review of Postman's book, Technopoly, by Scott London, host
and producer of "Insight & Outlook," a weekly program on KCBX, a public
radio station in San Luis Obispo, California, appears here. An
interview with Postman entitled "Prelude to Vegas" appears in a new
and very jazzy on-line magazine about television called Channel Zero.
And a brief excerpt
from Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death can be found on this
site.
E. F. Schumacher
More than any other single individual, E. F. Schumacher is responsible
for popularizing the notion of appropriate technology. Schumacher, author
of Small is Beautiful, founded the Intermediate Technology Development
Group to promote small-scale technology in 1966. An
interesting excerpt from Theodore Roszak's introduction to Small is
Beautiful may be found on the webiste of ECO BOOKS, a mail order
bookstore featuring books on the environment. Schumacher died in 1977.
Richard Sclove
Dick Sclove is director of The
Loka Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. Its website contains information
about the Institute, its projects and publications. Sclove is the author
of Democracy
and Technology (1995) and the founder of FASTnet (the Federation
of Activists on Science and Technology Network.
Albert H. Teich
Al Teich's personal home page contains his
biography, a photo, and links to institutions with which he is or has been
connected. Teich is director of Science
and Policy Programs at AAAS (the American Association for the Advancement
of Science) in Washington, DC. He is quoted on
congressional efforts to close the Office of Technology Assessment
and on
cuts to R&D in the federal budget in articles in The Scientist
in July 1995 and April 1996. The Universal Library Project at Carnegie
Mellon University includes the full text of Teich's paper on "Federal
Support of Applied Research: A Review of the United States Experience"
prepared for the National Academy of Sciences in 1985. Finally, if your
browser supports Real Audio,
you can hear Teich discussing science funding on the September 15, 1995
segment of NPR's
"Talk of the Nation -- Science Friday."
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler has probably done more to popularize futures studies than
any current writer. His best-selling books include Future Shock
(1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990). Apart
from his writing, Toffler serves as a lecturer and consultant to governments
and corporations. Toffler's name can be found all over the web; a recent
Hotbot
search yielded more than 3,300 hits. In conjunction with a visit by
Toffler to Costa Rica,"GrupoVirtual" has compiled a page
of links. (Note: The page is in Spanish, but the links are mainly to
pages in English.) A short
interview with a photo can be found in a feature on technology on the
Minneapolis Star Tribune website. Longer interviews are also available:
one
from Wired (1993), another from The
New Scientist (1994).
Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle is a professor of sociology of science at MIT as well
as a licensed clinical psychologist. Her 1984 book, The Second Self:
Computers and the Human Spirit is widely regarded as a seminal work
in the area of computers, culture, and society. Turkle's
home page contains a biography, her curriculum vitae, and information
about her publications and the courses she teaches. Robert
Atkins interviews Turkle in Talkback, an online "Journal of
Critical Discourse" published at Lehman College of the City University
of New York. A collection of links to other resources related to Turkle
is available at Ohio
State University. Another is available at Technology
Review.
Judy Wajcman
Judy Wajcman is a professor of sociology at the Research School of Social
Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has been
active in the women's movement in both Britain and Australia and is coeditor,
with Donald MacKenzie, of The Social Shaping of Technology. Wajman
is cited and her work is discussed in a 1995 paper entitled, "Being
Digital, and Domestically Challenged, Part 2," by Leslie Regan Shade
of McGill University. A detailed review
of her book Feminism Confronts Technology may be found in Infotrain,
an Australian information management journal.
Alvin M. Weinberg
Alvin Weinberg served as director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory from
1955 through 1973. He is currently on the staff of Oak
Ridge Associated Universities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The staff of
ORNL paid tribute to Weinberg on the occasion of his 80th birthday in April
1995. This
article describes his life and his contributions to the laboratory.
The American Institute of Physics recently published Weinberg's autobiography,
The
First Nuclear Era: The Life and Times of a Technological Fixer .
Weinberg also wrote the foreword
to a special issue of the ORNL Review honoring the lab's first
50 years.
Robert A. Weinberg
Robert Weinberg is professor of biology at MIT and a member of the
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical
Research. His laboratory
was among the first to recognize the existence of human oncogenes,
which are responsible for converting normal cells into cancer cells. Weinberg
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of a
long list of honors, scientific prizes, and honorary degrees. This
announcement of a lecture by Weinberg at St. Jude's Children's Research
Hospital includes a biography and picture.
Langdon Winner
Langdon Winner is professor of political science and director of graduate
studies in the Department of Science
and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
New York. Among his books are Autonomous Technology (1977) and The
Whale and the Reactor (1988). Here's a review of the latter by Scott
London. Winner spoke at the 1995 conference on Society and the Future of
Computing. His biography
and a summary
of his talk (including a photo) may be found on the conference website.
Edward J. Woodhouse
Edward (Ned) Woodhouse is a political scientist who teaches in the interdisciplinary
Department of Science
and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in
Troy, New York. Woodhouse is coauthor of a chapter entitled "Science, Government
and the Politics of Knowledge" in the Handbook
of Science and Technology Studies.
Shoshana Zuboff
Shoshana Zuboff is the Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg Professor of Business
Administration at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration.
Her biography may
be found on the School's website. She has published numerous articles and
cases on the subject of information technology in the workplace and lectures
and consults widely on this subject. The program for a conference of the
American Society for Training and Development at which Zuboff spoke in
June 1996 includes a
short profile and a photo.
Links to Course Syllabi Using Technology and the Future
CT551--TECHNOLOGY
& SOCIETY ON-LINE, Fall 1997, Professor Thomas A. Easton, Thomas
College, Waterville, Maine.
STS
300: Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society, Fall 1996, Dr.
Maarten Heyboer, State University of New York Institute of Technology at
Utica/Rome
L597
Computerization in Society, Professor Rob Kling, Indiana University
(1996)
Reviews of Technology and the Future
Review
by Karin Mardsjo posted on a site at Michigan Technological University.
