The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American SourcesUniv. Politèc. de Catalunya, 2010 - 224 páginas The significance of "technology" has been subject of continuous discussion. This selection of readings, ranging from primary sources to scholarly and critical works and literary renderings, is intended to furnish elements for that discussion. The history of the United States began with the advent of the industrial revolution, which, in turn, became an integral part of American national and cultural identity. Accordingly, that country provides an appropriate setting in which to examine the debate on technology. The reader is asked to relate the selected views herein included to his or her own notion of technology and progress as they both relate to the also controversial terms of culture, ideology, nature and gender |
Contenido
Preface | 7 |
From The Lowell Mills Harriet Farley 1844 | 22 |
Global Linking Walt Whitman 1855 The Railroad in Europe and America Wolfgang Schivelbush 1987 | 45 |
The American Plan John Dos Passos 1936 | 65 |
Nuclear Peril J Robert Oppenheimer 1945 | 83 |
ENIAC Kurt Vonnegut 1952 | 102 |
DDTMalcolm Gladwell 2001 | 119 |
TechnocracyTheodore Roszak 1968 | 132 |
Technology as a Social Process David F Noble 1977 | 150 |
Engineering and the Liberal Arts Samuel C Florman 1987 | 169 |
Emergence of the Word Technology Leo Marx 1994 | 183 |
Digital FutureNicholas Negroponte 1995 | 197 |
Further Reading | 215 |
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The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American Sources Montserrat Ginés Gibert Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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