The ninth edition of Technology and the Future, which is currently in production and which will be published in August 2002, bears relatively little resemblance to the original book.  It reflects the technology of the early 21st century and the perspectives of those who, in my view, are the most interesting and important thinkers on its interactions with society.  The 12 articles that are new in this edition are highlighted in red in the table of contents below.  Late this summer, as the book nears publication, this entire web site will receive a facelift.  The full text of the preface and links to information about the authors will be posted, together with other material. 

In the meantime, the 8th edition is still available from Wadsworth Publishing, which purchased it from my previous publisher, Bedford/St. Martin's.

Part I. THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? (1987)
      Leo Marx 

2.  How Society Shapes Technology (1997) 
      Robert Pool

3. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? (1966)
      Alvin M. Weinberg

4.  Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer (1990)
      Wendell Berry 

5.  Technology and the Tragic View (1981)
       Samuel C. Florman 

Part II. DEBATING TECHNOLOGY, 1960s STYLE 

6. The Role of Technology in Society (1969)
      Emmanuel G. Mesthene

7. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals (1969)
       John McDermott

Part III. ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY

8. Buddhist Economics (1973)
      E. F. Schumacher

9. Can Technology Be Humane? (1969)
       Paul Goodman

10. Technological Politics as if Democracy Really Mattered (1993)
       Richard Sclove

11.  Western Colonization of the Future (1999) 
       Ziauddin Sardar

12. Black Futurists in the Information Age (1997)
       Timothy L. Jenkins

13. Feminist Perspectives on Technology (1991)
       Judy Wajcman

14. Do Artifacts Have Politics? (1980)
       Langdon Winner

Part IV. DILEMMAS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY:  VULNERABILITY

15. Brittle Technology  (2000) 
      Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins

16. Technological Vulnerability (1996)
      Brian Martin

Part V. DILEMMAS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY:  BIOETHICS

17. The Dark Side of the Genome (1991)
       Robert A. Weinberg

18.  Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research (2001)
       President George W. Bush

19.  Hard Cell:  A Commentary on the President’s Stem Cell Address (2001)
       Thomas H. Murray

20.  The Wisdom of Repugnance (1998) 
       Leon R. Kass

21.  Science Fiction:  A Comment on Leon Kass’s Bioethics (2002)
       Jerome Groopman
 
Part VI. DILEMMAS OF NEW TECHNOLOGY:  THE INFORMATION AGE

22. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 (1986)
      Paul Ceruzzi

23. Computer Ethics (1993)
      Tom Forester and Perry Morrison

24.  The Internet Under Siege (2001)
       Lawrence Lessig

25. In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988)
      Shoshana Zuboff 

26. The Logistics of Techno-War (1997)
      Gene I. Rochlin

Part VII. DEBATING TECHNOLOGY, 21st CENTURY STYLE

27. Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us (2000)
      Bill Joy

28. A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists (2000)
      John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

Part VIII. CODA

29. In Touch at Last (1999)
      Seth Shostak