Technology Choices

Author : Diane E. Bailey,Paul M. Leonardi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262028424

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Technology Choices by Diane E. Bailey,Paul M. Leonardi Pdf

An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work. Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection. In Technology Choices, Diane Bailey and Paul Leonardi argue that occupational factors—rather than personal preference or purely technological concerns—strongly shape workers' technology choices. Drawing on extensive field work—a decade's worth of observations and interviews in seven engineering firms in eight countries—Bailey and Leonardi challenge the traditional views of technology choices: technological determinism and social constructivism. Their innovative occupational perspective allows them to explore how external forces shape ideas, beliefs, and norms in ways that steer individuals to particular technology choices—albeit in somewhat predictable and generalizable ways. They examine three relationships at the heart of technology choices: human to technology, technology to technology, and human to human. An occupational perspective, they argue, helps us not only to understand past technology choices, but also to predict future ones.

Author : Diane E. Bailey,Paul M. Leonardi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262323697

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Technology Choices by Diane E. Bailey,Paul M. Leonardi Pdf

An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work. Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection. In Technology Choices, Diane Bailey and Paul Leonardi argue that occupational factors—rather than personal preference or purely technological concerns—strongly shape workers' technology choices. Drawing on extensive field work—a decade's worth of observations and interviews in seven engineering firms in eight countries—Bailey and Leonardi challenge the traditional views of technology choices: technological determinism and social constructivism. Their innovative occupational perspective allows them to explore how external forces shape ideas, beliefs, and norms in ways that steer individuals to particular technology choices—albeit in somewhat predictable and generalizable ways. They examine three relationships at the heart of technology choices: human to technology, technology to technology, and human to human. An occupational perspective, they argue, helps us not only to understand past technology choices, but also to predict future ones.

Author : États-Unis. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428921535

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Energy Technology Choices by États-Unis. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment Pdf

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1568061609

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Energy Technology Choices by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Provides an evaluation of the technical risks and opportunities facing America's energy future. Not an exhaustive analysis of any one technology, rather, it draws together the main themes of various energy reports from the past 16 years. An outline of the main directions America could follow. 40 charts and tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781422349601

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Energy Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pierre Lemonnier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134523061

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Technological Choices by Pierre Lemonnier Pdf

Technological Choices applies the critical tools of archaeology to the subject of technology and its impact on humankind throughout the ages. An examination of the challenges technological innovations present to various cultures, Technological Choices asserts that in any society, such choices are made on the basis of cultural values and social relations, rather than on the inherent benefits in technology itself. Of course, this revolutionary viewpoint has critical implications for contemporary Western societies. Based on case studies covering a wide range of chronologies and geographies, Technological Choices moves rapidly from Neolithic Europe to the modern industrial age, stopping on the way to examine the tribes of Papua, New Guinea, rural Indian and North African societies as well as several European peasant communities. The techniques studied range from the manufacture of stone implements to the development of high-tech transportation devices. With its breadth of subject matter and multidisciplinary approach, Technological Choices offers new insight into the interrelationship between technology and society. Also unprecedented is the book's emphasis on the functional aspects of material culture.

Author : Matej Makarovič,Borut Rončević
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Technology
ISBN : 3631808216

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Technology and Social Choices in the Era of Social Transformations by Matej Makarovič,Borut Rončević Pdf

From the dawn of humanity, the dialectic relationship between technology and society has been one of the driving forces behind changes in both realms. Trends in technological developments and their applications are, ultimately, the result of individual and collective choices. At the same time, technology influences the social choices of individuals, small groups and entire societies. This book focuses on two closely related ideas: technological development and social choices. While relating them, the book shows the relationship between human individuals and their agency; social structures, both as the initial context and as resulting from human agency; and technology that has been developed and applied by human agents' choices within social contexts.

Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Office of Technology Assessment
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : UCR:31210010249967

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Energy Technology Choices by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment Pdf

Author : Barry Schwartz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780061748998

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The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz Pdf

Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions—both big and small—have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and greater satisfaction. But beware of excessive choice: choice overload can make you question the decisions you make before you even make them, it can set you up for unrealistically high expectations, and it can make you blame yourself for any and all failures. In the long run, this can lead to decision-making paralysis, anxiety, and perpetual stress. And, in a culture that tells us that there is no excuse for falling short of perfection when your options are limitless, too much choice can lead to clinical depression. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explains at what point choice—the hallmark of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish—becomes detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being. In accessible, engaging, and anecdotal prose, Schwartz shows how the dramatic explosion in choice—from the mundane to the profound challenges of balancing career, family, and individual needs—has paradoxically become a problem instead of a solution. Schwartz also shows how our obsession with choice encourages us to seek that which makes us feel worse. By synthesizing current research in the social sciences, Schwartz makes the counter intuitive case that eliminating choices can greatly reduce the stress, anxiety, and busyness of our lives. He offers eleven practical steps on how to limit choices to a manageable number, have the discipline to focus on those that are important and ignore the rest, and ultimately derive greater satisfaction from the choices you have to make.

Author : Jacob Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Artificial intelligence
ISBN : 031648718X

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The Loop by Jacob Ward Pdf

This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it poses to humanity: "The best book I have ever read about AI" (New York Times bestselling author Roger McNamee). Artificial intelligence is about to amplify the most primitive version of who we are, and spit it back at us for entertainment and profit. That's the warning from award-winning technology journalist Jacob Ward, whose decade-long journey through the cutting edge of AI and behavioral science reveals that we're on the verge of becoming caught in The Loop: a shrinking cycle of narrowed choices and lost skills that will turn us away from expertise, human connection, and creativity if we don't act fast. From biometric surveillance states that track the movements and relationships of over a billion people, to the algorithms that determine what movies get made, to the risky multiple-choice simplicity of automated battlefield systems, this book reveals that the most obvious patterns in our behavior--patterns that AI is most likely to vacuum up--are not the ones we want to perpetuate. As the tech industry begins writing flawed human habits into AI, The Loop is a call to look at ourselves more clearly, so we can put only the best parts of ourselves into the systems we create.

Author : Vivek Wadhwa,Alex Salkever
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781626569737

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The Driver in the Driverless Car by Vivek Wadhwa,Alex Salkever Pdf

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa uses this book to alert us to dozens of them and raise important questions about what they may mean for us. Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, self-driving vehicles, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. But the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max. Wadhwa offers us three questions to ask about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are its risks and rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? Looking at a broad array of advances in this light, he emphasizes that the future is up to us to create—that even if our hands are not on the wheel, we will decide the driverless car's destination.

Author : Kelvin W Willoughby
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015127429

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Technology Choice by Kelvin W Willoughby Pdf

Author : C. A. Brebbia,A. M. Marinov,Henning Bjornlund
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845644468

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Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies III by C. A. Brebbia,A. M. Marinov,Henning Bjornlund Pdf

Fresh water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. In the near future, control of it could lead to the type of political instability that is now associated with energy shortages. This book addresses the different aspects of irrigation, including not only the management of water resources and scientific and technical aspects, but also matters related to policy and economics. The objective of the Conference Series is to provide a venue for an international presentation and dissemination of papers related to sustainable ways of conducting irrigation. Sustainable irrigation has three key aspects, i.e. i) developing ways of using scarce water resources most efficiently to maximize food production while minimizing the environmental impact of irrigation activities on the affected land and water resources; ii) ensuring that the extraction of water from surface and groundwater sources is set at sustainable levels to maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems to secure a continued supply of quality water for irrigation, recreation and urban/industrial uses; iii) facilitate an equitable distribution of the water available for consumption between competing users, which is essential to maintain sustainable communities. Attracting researchers in academia and industry, as well as professional practitioners and policy makers, the Third International Conference provides a platform for a review of the state of the art from the scientific, technological, political and economic points of view. Papers from the Meeting are published in this volume, and cover the following topics: Irrigation Management; Modelling and Simulation; Sustainable Irrigation - Farmers' Actions, Environmental Benefits and Socio-economic Consequences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : High occupancy vehicle lanes
ISBN : UCBK:C100885673

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New Technology Options for Transit in California by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jianfei Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Manpower policy
ISBN : NWU:35556020255220

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The Choice of Technology in Road Construction by Jianfei Zhang Pdf