Technology and the Future Book

PART 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. Florman. 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 - John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 11. Promise and Peril - Ray Kurzweil. PART IV: CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGICAL DILEMMAS: CLIMATE CHANGE. 12. The Science Behind Climate Change - William Collins, Robert Colman, James Haywood, Martin R. Manning, and Philip Mote. 13. The Climate Science Isn't Settled - Richard S. Lindzen. 14. The Geoengineering Option; A Last Resort Against Global Warming? - David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbrunner, and 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. 24. Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr. 25. Net Neutrality 101, Save the Internet. 26. Managing Broadband Networks: A Policymaker's Guide - George Ou. PART VII: GOVERNANCE AND GLOBALIZATION. 27. Government and Technology - Albert H. Teich. 28. The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman.