Visions Of Technology

Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439129555

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Visions Of Technology by Richard Rhodes Pdf

Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but pesticides and chemicals threaten to poison the earth. Does technology improve us or diminish us? Enslave us or make us free? With this first-ever collection of the essential twentieth-century writings on technology, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes explores the optimism, ambivalence, and wrongheaded judgments with which Americans have faced an ever-shifting world. Visions of Technology collects writings on events from the Great Exposition of 1900 and the invention of the telegraph to the advent of genetic counseling and the defeat of Garry Kasparov by IBM's chess-playing computer, Deep Blue. Its gems of opinion and history include Henry Ford on the horseless carriage, Robert Caro on the transformation of New York City, J. Robert Oppenheimer on science and war, Loretta Lynn on the Pill and much more. Together, they chronicle an unprecedented century of change.

Author : John Grin,Armin Grunwald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642597022

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Vision Assessment: Shaping Technology in 21st Century Society by John Grin,Armin Grunwald Pdf

One way to shape technology and its embedding in society in the 21st century is through the visions that guide their development, especially concerning the long-term societal perspective. A critical discussion and assessment of these visions is a prerequisite for influencing the course of development. Technology assessment, therefore, has to provide a methodological repertoire for assessing and constructing visions, taking into account the requirements for long-term orientation as well as the need for public legitimation. This volume draws upon insights from technology assessment, political sciences, epistemology, sociology and ethics. It is to contribute to the recent literature in on "shaping technology", taking into account the "co-evolution of technology and society". It connects to that technology assessment literature that emphasises TA's pro-active role and its contribution to political judgement.

Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology
ISBN : OCLC:976185191

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Author : Marita Sturken,Douglas Thomas,Sandra Ball-Rokeach
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1592132278

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Technological Visions by Marita Sturken,Douglas Thomas,Sandra Ball-Rokeach Pdf

For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape, and potential for their use. In this exciting collection, a range of contributors, including Sherry Turkle, Lynn Spigel, John Perry Barlow, Langdon Winner, David Nye, and Lord Asa Briggs, discuss the visions that have shaped "new" technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation. Focusing on issues such as the nature of prediction, community, citizenship, consumption, and the nation, as well as the metaphors that have shaped public debates about technology, the authors examine innovations past and present, from the telegraph and the portable television to the Internet, to better understand how our visions and imagination have shaped the meaning and use of technology. Author note: Marita Sturken is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering and Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture (with Lisa Cartwright). Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is author of three books, most recently Hacker Culture. Sandra Ball-Rokeach is a Professor and Director of the Communication Technology and Community Program in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is author of several books, including Theories of Mass Communication (with M. L. De Fleur).

Author : Deborah G. Johnson,Jameson M. Wetmore
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262303385

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Technology and Society by Deborah G. Johnson,Jameson M. Wetmore Pdf

An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.

Author : Daniel Dinello
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292709867

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Technophobia! by Daniel Dinello Pdf

Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will completely shed the shackles of pain, disease, and even death, as human minds are downloaded into death-free robots whereby they can live forever in a heavenly "posthuman" existence. In this techno-utopian future, humanity will be saved by the godlike power of technology. If you believe the authors of science fiction, however, posthuman evolution marks the beginning of the end of human freedom, values, and identity. Our dark future will be dominated by mad scientists, rampaging robots, killer clones, and uncontrollable viruses. In this timely new book, Daniel Dinello examines "the dramatic conflict between the techno-utopia promised by real-world scientists and the techno-dystopia predicted by science fiction." Organized into chapters devoted to robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other significant scientific advancements, this book summarizes the current state of each technology, while presenting corresponding reactions in science fiction. Dinello draws on a rich range of material, including films, television, books, and computer games, and argues that science fiction functions as a valuable corrective to technological domination, countering techno-hype and reflecting the "weaponized, religiously rationalized, profit-fueled" motives of such science. By imaging a disastrous future of posthuman techno-totalitarianism, science fiction encourages us to construct ways to contain new technology, and asks its audience perhaps the most important question of the twenty-first century: is technology out of control?

Author : James A. Herrick
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781602358782

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Visions of Technological Transcendence by James A. Herrick Pdf

This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions. Principal among these is to cast a vision of a technological future involving enhanced posthumans, immortality, human merger with machines and space colonization.

Author : Stephen H. Cutcliffe,Carl Mitcham
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791448452

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Visions of STS by Stephen H. Cutcliffe,Carl Mitcham Pdf

Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs.

Author : Rebecca Ferguson,Ann Jones,Eileen Scanlon
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781911529804

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Educational visions by Rebecca Ferguson,Ann Jones,Eileen Scanlon Pdf

What have been the biggest successes in educational technology – and why have they succeeded when others have failed? Educational Visions shows how innovations including citizen science, learning at scale, inclusive education, learning design and analytics have developed over decades. The book is shaped by the visions pursued by one research group for the past 40 years. It outlines the group’s framework for innovation and shows how this can be put into practice to achieve long-term results that benefit both students and teachers at every educational level.

Author : Martin Sand
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783658226848

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Futures, Visions, and Responsibility by Martin Sand Pdf

Martin Sand explores the problems of responsibility at the early, visionary stages of technological development. He discusses the increasingly dominant concept of innovation and outlines how narratives about the future are currently used to facilitate technological change, to foster networks, and to raise public awareness for innovations. This set of activities is under increasing scrutiny as a form of “visioneering”. The author discusses intentionality and freedom as important, albeit fuzzy, preconditions for being responsible. He distinguishes being from holding responsible and explores this distinction’s effects on the problem of moral luck. Finally, he develops a virtue ethical framework to discuss visioneers’ and innovators’ responsibilities.​

Author : William H. Dutton,Malcolm Peltu
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198774966

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Information and Communication Technologies by William H. Dutton,Malcolm Peltu Pdf

Information and Communication Technologies: Visions and Realities illuminates the social and economic implications of advances in information and communication technologies. It has been written and edited to reach a broad audience across the social sciences interested in constructive ways ofthinking about the social dynamics of the revolution in digital media. Based on a decade of research undertaken by the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT), this book explains* how social factors influence technological innovation and convergence;* why organizations seek to transform work, services, and management;* ways in which households domesticate new media;* how public policy andregulation shape the impact of technology on employment, media concentration, privacy, and access in an information society.The thirty contributors include leading figures in the field.

Author : Scott McQuire
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015041253348

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Visions of Modernity by Scott McQuire Pdf

Visions of Modernity offers an overview of modern visual culture, exploring the relationship between technology, society and identity which underpins contemporary media culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN : 9781428928039

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Future visions : education and technology. by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Benjamin Hurlbut,Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783658110444

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Perfecting Human Futures by J. Benjamin Hurlbut,Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Pdf

Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is thrown into question by emerging technologies that promise radical control over human life and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary volume assembles scholars of science and technology studies, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and history to examine imaginations of technological progress that promises to transcend the constraints of human body and being. Attending in particular to transhumanist and posthumanist visions, the volume breaks new ground by exploring their utopian and eschatological dimensions and situating them within a broader context of ideas, institutions, and practices of innovation. The volume invites specialists and general readers to explore the stakes of contemporary imaginations of technological innovation as a source of progress, a force of social and historical transformation, and as the defining essence of human life.

Author : Sabine Seymour
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783990433737

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Functional Aesthetics by Sabine Seymour Pdf

Functional Aesthetics is a sequel to Seymour's highly acclaimed book "Fashionable Technology" (Springer 2008) and contains new state-of-the art and revealing artistic and design examples focusing on the aesthetic and functional aspects. Chapters like Contextual Prerequisite, Body Sculpture, or Transparent Sustainability provide in-depth studies of often visionary projects seen as stimulation for new developments in the matured field of "Fashionable Technology". The book presents inspiring projects between the poles of fashion, design, technology, and sciences. It includes a list of relevant information on DIY resources, publications, inspirations, etc.