Technology and Society
Last update: 01 Jan 2025 10:51First version: Before 13 March 1995
Technology as a cause of social change. Social factors affecting technological change. Attitudes of non-technologists to technologies and technologists. Attitudes of technologists to the rest of their society. Control of technological processes. Official technology policies. University-industrial complexes.
See also: Knowledge and Intelligence as Factors of Production
- To Read:
- Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
- Jennifer Karns Alexander, The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control
- Wiebe E. Bijke, Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs
- B. J. Fogg, Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
- David Hess, Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion
- Hughes, Rescuing Prometheus
- Stephen B. Johnson, The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs [How NASA and co. developed "bureaucracies for innovation."]
- John Landels, Engineering in the Ancient World
- J. S. Lansing, Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali
- Rachel P. Maines, Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure
- Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths [Review by Fred Block]
- John Orr, "German Social Theory and the Hidden Face of Technology", European Journal of Sociology 15 (1974): 312--336
- Pool, Beyond Engineering
- Edward Tenner, Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
- Edward Wenk, Jr., Making Waves: Engineering, Politics, and the Social Management of Technology
