Technology and Society
10 Apr 2009 17:40Technology as a cause of social change. Social factors affecting technological change. Attitudes of non-technologists to technologies and technologists. Attitudes of technologists to the rest of their society. Control of technological processes. Official technology policies. University-industrial complexes.
- To Read:
- Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
- Wiebe E. Bijke, Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs
- B. J. Fogg, Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
- David Hess, Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion [blurb]
- Hughes, Rescuing Prometheus
- Stephen B. Johnson, The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs [How NASA and co. developed "bureaucracies for innovation." Blurb]
- John Landels, Engineering in the Ancient World [Blurb]
- J. S. Lansing, Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali [Blurb]
- Pool, Beyond Engineering
- Edward Tenner, Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
- Edward Wenk, Jr., Making Waves: Engineering, Politics, and the Social Management of Technology [Blurbs]
