A way through the global techno-scientific culture / by Sheldon Richmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, Sheldon Saul, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

Computers--Social aspects.

Computers.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 197 pages ; 21 cm

Contents:

Chapter 1 Mystique p. 1

1 The development of the mystique of computer technology p. 2

2 The root of the mystique concerning computer technology p. 8

3 How the new elite of computer technology workers keep control over computer technology p. 11

4 Are computers a hybrid technology that is difficult to learn? p. 14

5 Summing up and where to go from here: the false absolutes of computer technology p. 25

1 What has computer technology done to knowledge? p. 29

2 What's so wrong with the technopoly? p. 31

3 People have become dummies in the technopoly p. 34

4 How to understand why people have become dummies p. 41

5 How the technopoly turns people into dummies p. 45

6 Restoring knowledge in the technopoly, or dummies no longer p. 48

Chapter 3 Cultures p. 56

1 Do we understand people from different cultures? p. 57

2 How does science create scientific knowledge? p. 61

3 How do science and the humanities or arts form distinctive cultures? p. 66

4 How do scientific and artistic creation allow for breaking the two cultures barrier? p. 68

5 Six mistaken ideas about cultures and subcultures p. 71

1 Two guiding principles for breaking the blocks to dialogue p. 77

2 The culture of work, and the work of culture p. 79

3 Inside-out/outside-in p. 81

4 Top-down/bottom-up p. 83

5 Parallel worlds/overlapping worlds p. 87

6 Where are we in the life-cycle of socratic social architecture p. 90

Chapter 5 Philosophers p. 92

1 Where are the philosophers, critical enquirers? p. 93

2 Philosophers who are ideologues for techno-submissiveness p. 97

3 Interfacing with change p. 109

4 Implementing an interface p. 113

5 The role of philosophers, criticism p. 116

1 Where do we find the critics? p. 121

2 Theories of critical thinking or socratic enquiry p. 122

3 How has the global techno-scientific culture refashioned society such that critical enquiry cannot gain a foothold? p. 125

4 The fault-lines in the global techno-scientific culture and how to renew critical enquiry in the digital technology dominated world of today p. 127

5 A hope for the development of a more humane computer technology p. 130

1 Reminders p. 139

2 The new socio-technical system of computer technology threatens the extinction of the humane p. 141

3 How can we regain the cognitive functions that inform our practical and moral judgmental capacities? p. 142.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781527546264

1527546268

OCLC:

1141519621

Publisher Number:

99984961442