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Technology and Society Building Our Sociotechnical Future

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ISBN-10: 0262101246

ISBN-13: 9780262101240

Edition: 2008

Authors: Deborah G. Johnson, Jameson M. Wetmore, Michael Bess, Gary Chapman, Harold Collins

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Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the…    
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Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/24/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 648
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Relationship counselor, pastor, and author Gary Chapman graduated from Moody Bible Institute, received a B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Wheaton College and Wake Forest University respectively, completed graduate work in education at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, and earned his Ph.D. in Adult Education and Master's of Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Chapman has discussed his five love language theory in numerous books and video programs, and he has also written many works of guidance on the topics of marriage, parenting, and in-law relationships. The director of Marriage and Family Life Consultants, Inc., Chapman has also been…    

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Visions of a Technological Future
"Technology and Social Justice"
"The Machine Stops"
"The Prolongation of Life"
"Reproductive Ectogenesis: The Third Era of Human Reproduction and Some Moral Consequences"
"Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom"
Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology
"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"
The Relationship Between Technology and Society
"Do Machines Make History?"
"The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts"
"Technological Momentum"
"Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts"
"Code Is Law"
"The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology"
Technology and Values
"Do Artifacts Have Politics?"
"Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots"
White
"Manufacturing Gender in Commercial and Military Cockpit Design"
"Pas de Trois: Science, Technology, and the Marketplace"
"Amish Technology: Reinforcing Values and Building Community"
The Complex Nature of Sociotechnical Systems
"Will Small Be Beautiful? Making Policies for Our Nanotech Future"
"Sociotechnical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall"
"The Naked Launch: Assigning Blame for the Challenger Explosion"
"Bodies, Machines, and Male Power"
"Crash!: Nuclear Fuel Flasks and Anti-Misting Kerosene on Trial"
"When Is a Work Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development"
Twenty-First-Century Challenges
"Shaping Technology for the 'Good Life': The Technological Imperative versus the Social Imperative"
"The Feminization of Work in the Information Age"
"Nanotechnology and the Developing World"
"Nanotechnology and the Developing World: Will Nanotechnology Overcome Poverty or Widen Disparities?"
"People's Science in Action: The Politics of Protest and Knowledge Brokering in India"
"Security Trade-Offs Are Subjective" and "Technology Creates Security Imbalances"
"Questioning Surveillance and Security"
Energy, Society, and Environment: Technology for a Sustainable Future
Introduction to Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
"Icarus 2.0: A Historian's Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement"
Index