Technology and change / edited by John G. Burke and Marshall C. Eakin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, John G., editor.

Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig), 1952- editor.

Courses by Newspaper (Project)

Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Technological innovations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 500, x, 53 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company, 1979.

Contents:

Technology on trial. Are we really in control? / Barry Commoner ; The technique of total control / Lewis Mumford ; The technological order / Jacques Ellul ; In praise of technology / Samuel C. Florman

Technology's effects. The first technological revolution and its lessons / Peter F. Drucker ; The industrial revolution / T.S. Ashton ; Technology and culture in evolution / J. Bronowski ; Clocks and culture / Carlo M. Cipolla ; The all-seeing eye / Lewis Mumford ; What computers mean for man and society / Herbert A. Simon ; The systems approach / Simon Ramo ; The citadel of expertise / Theodore Roszak ; Bureaucracy / Victor C. Ferkiss ; Dynamo and virgin reconsidered / Lynn White, Jr. ; Scientific management and the assembly line / Robert H. Guest ; Worker Alienation / Gary Brynner and Dan Clark ; Automation / Marshall McLuhan

Conditions of technological development. Nature and culture in Western thought / Clarence J. Glacken ; Technology and resource endowment / Nathan Rosenberg ; Mineral resources: challenge or threat? / Walter R. Hibbard, Jr. ; Environmental pollution in the Middle Ages / Jean Gimpel ; The new environmental attitude / René Dubos ; Do machines make history? / Robert L. Heilbroner ; Technology as environment / William F. Ogburn ; Technological change and social change / George H. Daniels ; Amish society / John A. Hostetler ; The migrations of human populations / Kingsley Davis ; The food-people problem / Neal F. Jensen ; India's need for advanced science and technology / S. Husain Zaheer ; Intermediate technology / Wilson Clark

Sources of technological change. Technology and democracy, 1800-1860 / Hugo A. Meier ; Growth versus the quality of life / J. Alan Wagar ; Economic growth, technology, and society / Nathan Rosenberg ; The frugality phenomenon / Carter Henderson ; Little science, big science / Derek J. de Solla Price ; Applied science and technology / Peter F. Drucker ; How the transistor emerged / Charles Weiner ; Social problems of industrialized science / Jerome R. Ravetz ; The engineering profession / Sir William Fairbairn ; Engineering the household / Siegfried Giedion ; The "industrial revolution" in the home / Ruth Schwartz Cowan ; The role of the engineers / Thorstein Veblen ; Unsafe at any speed / Ralph Nader ; Public interest : first priority in engineering design? / Donald E. Marlowe ; Technology and warfare / Quincy Wright ; The command of the air / Giulio Douhet ; Letter to President Roosevelt / Albert Einstein ; Report on the "super" / General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission ; Nuclear weapons development / Andrei D. Sakharov ; Strategic reconnaissance / Herbert F. York and G. Allen Greb ; The government and agricultural technology / Reynold M. Wik ; The government and industrial technology / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. ; Bursting boilers and the federal power / John G. Burke ; Knowledge, power, and social purpose / Sanford A. Lakoff

Retrospect and prospect. The act of invention / Lynn White, Jr. ; The invention of the riveting machine / Sir William Fairbairn ; Economic sources of inventive activity / Jacob Schmookler ; Nonverbal thought in technology / Eugene S. Ferguson ; The sources of invention / John Jewkes, David Sawers, and Richard Stillerman ; Freedom through socialism / Friedrich Engels ; The industrial way of life / Clarence E. Ayres ; Democracy at the grass roots / David E. Lilienthal ; The Garrison Dam disaster / Arthur E. Morgan ; Freedom and direction / James C. Wallace ; Technology and human nature / Kenneth Keniston ; The futility and dangers of technology assessment / Peter F. Drucker ; Technology as legislation / Langdon Winner ; The technological imperative versus public interests / Dorothy Nelkin ; Technology assessment in retrospect / Harvey Brooks.

Notes:

"A Courses by Newspaper reader."

Includes a study guide by Marshall C. Eakin: x, 53 pages at end.

"Courses by Newspaper is a project of University Extension, University of California, San Diego. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities"--title page.

" ©1979 by the Regents of the University of California"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-500).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

Kislak Center copy is stamped Complimentary copy.

ISBN:

0878350829

9780878350827

0878350837

9780878350834

OCLC:

4882948