عرض عادي

Technology and the future / [edited by] Albert H. Teich.

المساهم (المساهمين):نوع المادة : نصنصالناشر:Boston, MA : /Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, [2013]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2013الطبعات:12th edوصف:xix, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:
  • text
نوع الوسائط:
  • unmediated
نوع الناقل:
  • volume
تدمك:
  • 9781111828547
  • 1111828547
  • 9781111828561
  • 1111828563
الموضوع:تصنيف مكتبة الكونجرس:
  • T14.5 T4416 2013
موارد على الانترنت:
المحتويات:
pt. I Thinking About Technology -- 1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? / Leo Marx -- 2. How Society Shapes Technology / Robert Pool -- 3. The Shock of the Old / David Edgerton -- 4. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- 5. Technology and the Tragic View / Samuel C. Flonnan -- 6. Do Artifacts Have Politics? / Langdon Winner -- part II Debating Technology: 1960s Style -- 7. The Role of Technology in Society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- 8. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals / John McDermott -- part III Debating Technology: Twenty-First-Century Style -- 9. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us / Bill Joy -- 10.A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists / Paul Duguid -- 11. Promise and Peril / Ray Kurzweil -- part IV Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Climate Change -- 12. The Science Behind Climate Change / Philip Mote -- 13. The Climate Science Isn't Settled / Richard S. Lindzen.
Contents note continued: 14. The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming? / Katharine Ricke -- 15.20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be a Bad Idea / Alan Robock -- part V Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: The New Biology -- 16. Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide / Christopher Thomas Scott -- 17. Applications, Benefits, and Risks of Synthetic Biology / Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues -- 18. Five Hard Truths for Synthetic Biology / Roberta Kwok -- 19. The Case against Perfection / Michael J. Sandel -- 20. Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience / Henry T. Greely -- part VI Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Information and Communications Technology -- 21. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 / Paul Ceruzzi -- 22. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer / Wendell Berry -- 23.Computer Ethics / Deborah G. Johnson.
Contents note continued: 24. Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains / Nicholas Carr -- 25.Net Neutrality 101 -- Save the Internet -- 26. Managing Broadband Networks / George Ou -- part VII Governance and Globalization -- 27. Government and Technology / Albert H. Teich.
المقتنيات
نوع المادة المكتبة الحالية رقم الطلب رقم النسخة حالة تاريخ الإستحقاق الباركود
كتاب كتاب UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة T14.5 T4416 2013 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 300100313260

Includes bibliographical references.

pt. I Thinking About Technology -- 1. Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? / Leo Marx -- 2. How Society Shapes Technology / Robert Pool -- 3. The Shock of the Old / David Edgerton -- 4. Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- 5. Technology and the Tragic View / Samuel C. Flonnan -- 6. Do Artifacts Have Politics? / Langdon Winner -- part II Debating Technology: 1960s Style -- 7. The Role of Technology in Society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- 8. Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals / John McDermott -- part III Debating Technology: Twenty-First-Century Style -- 9. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us / Bill Joy -- 10.A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists / Paul Duguid -- 11. Promise and Peril / Ray Kurzweil -- part IV Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Climate Change -- 12. The Science Behind Climate Change / Philip Mote -- 13. The Climate Science Isn't Settled / Richard S. Lindzen.

Contents note continued: 14. The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming? / Katharine Ricke -- 15.20 Reasons Why Geoengineering May Be a Bad Idea / Alan Robock -- part V Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: The New Biology -- 16. Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide / Christopher Thomas Scott -- 17. Applications, Benefits, and Risks of Synthetic Biology / Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues -- 18. Five Hard Truths for Synthetic Biology / Roberta Kwok -- 19. The Case against Perfection / Michael J. Sandel -- 20. Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances in Neuroscience / Henry T. Greely -- part VI Contemporary Technological Dilemmas: Information and Communications Technology -- 21. An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 / Paul Ceruzzi -- 22. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer / Wendell Berry -- 23.Computer Ethics / Deborah G. Johnson.

Contents note continued: 24. Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains / Nicholas Carr -- 25.Net Neutrality 101 -- Save the Internet -- 26. Managing Broadband Networks / George Ou -- part VII Governance and Globalization -- 27. Government and Technology / Albert H. Teich.

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