Technology and society

by DORF, RICHARD C

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Book description: San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser Publishing Company. 1974. Soft Cover. 0878350527 . 428 pages, illustrations, diagrams, charts, wraps, very good. From the preface: Within the past decade a growing number of citizens has begun to question the wisdom of unchecked technology. Thoughtful persons in all parts of society are now calling for a new understanding of potential benefits and costs; they want to know what technological innovations will do to them as well as what they can do for them. Examining the environmental, social, political, and psychological costs of new technology is a difficult but nonetheless important task. The purpose of this book is to assist the student in exploring the philosophical, economic, and historical bases of engineering and technological change as well as the potential we have for understanding (and therefore controlling) technological innovation. While public confidence in technological advance is understandably waning, a new and healthy skepticism regarding science and engineering - and their products - is also growing. We must continually seek balance between man and machine, effectiveness and efficiency; benefit and environmental cost; the social fabric and unrelenting change. This book is based upon the search for such balances. .

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