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Preface | |
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Understanding Technology | |
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Important Reasons to Understand Technology | |
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The Task at Hand | |
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Technology Examined: Definitions and Distinctions | |
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Definitions: Confusion and Conflicts | |
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Technology Defined | |
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Is Technology Neutral? | |
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The Supposed Neutrality of Technology | |
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The Value-Ladenness of Technology | |
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Conclusions | |
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The Cultural Mandate and Modern Technology | |
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Humankind as Formers of Culture | |
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Four Lines in Human History | |
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Technicism | |
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Exiles in Babylon | |
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A Guide to Responsible Technology | |
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A Theory of Normativity | |
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A Structure of Normative Principles | |
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Technology and Science | |
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The Science-Technology Relationship: The Conventional View | |
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A Historical Perspective | |
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Characteristics of Modern Technology | |
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The Hegemony of Science in Technology | |
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Technology and Economics | |
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Two Views of Economic Activity | |
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Economic Valuing | |
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The Effects of Technology on Economic Relationships | |
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Economics, Technological Choice, and Technological Change | |
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Technology and the State | |
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The State | |
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Government and Technological Practices and Institutions | |
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Barriers to a Proper Relationship | |
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From Technicism to Biblically Based Normative Principles | |
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A Design Philosophy | |
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Technological Design: An Introduction | |
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A Holistic Approach | |
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Normative Principles for Design | |
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Design Specifications | |
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Sufficient Design | |
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Design and Fabrication in Practice | |
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Intrinsic Characteristics | |
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Extrinsic Barriers to Sufficient Design | |
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An Illustration of Responsible Design | |
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Prophetic Witness to a Technicistic Society | |
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The Nature of Prophetic Witness | |
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Basic Themes of the Message | |
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Activating the Conscience | |
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Technology and Mutual Responsibility | |
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The Nature of Responsibility | |
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Strategies for Implementing Collective Responsibility | |
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Position-specific Responsibility | |
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Recommended Reading | |