Society and Technological Change Book

Part 1. Orientations
1. The Nature of Technology
2. Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change

Part 2. The Process of Technological Change
3. The Sources of Technological Change
4. Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance
5. The Diffusion of Technology

Part 3. How Technology Affects the Health of the Earth and Its Inhabitants
6. Technology, Energy, and the Environment
7. Medical and Biological Technologies

Part 4. Technology and the Transformation of Work
8. Work in Nonindustrial Societies
9. Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other?
10. Technological Change and Life on the Job

Part 5. Communication
11. Printing
12. The Electronic Media

Part 6. The Tools of Destruction
13. Weapons and Their Consequences
14. How New Weapons Emerge--And How They May Be Contained

Part 7. The Shaping and Control of Technology
15. Technology and Its Creators: Who's in Charge of Whom?
16. Organizations and Technological Change
17. Governing Technology Index