Table Of ContentPart 1 Defining Technology 1. The Nature of Technology 2. Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change Part Two The Process of Technological Change 3. The Sources of Technological Change 4. Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance 5. The Diffusion of Technology Part Three How Technology Affects the Health of the Earth and Its Inhabitants 6. Technology, Energy, and the Environment 7. Medical Technologies 8. Genetic Technologies Part Four Technology and the Transformation of Work 9. Work in Nonindustrial Societies 10. Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other? 11. Technological Change and Life on the Job Part Five Communication 12. Printing 13. The Electronic Media: From the Telegraph to Television 14. The Internet Age Part Six The Tools of Destruction 15. Weapons and Their Consequences 16. The Era of Smart Weapons* 17. How New Weapons Emerge--And How They May Be Contained Part Seven The Shaping and Control of Technology 18. Technology and Its Creators: Who's in Charge of Whom? 19. Organizations and Technological Change 20. Governing Technology
SynopsisEngaging and insightful, Society and Technological Change introduces the study of society and technology through technology's influence on our daily lives in addition to how it has shaped societies where it's created., Engaging and insightful, Society and Technological Change introduces the study of society and technology through technologys influence on our daily lives in addition to how it has shaped societies where its created.