Society, ethics, and technology /
Morton Winston, Ralph Edelbach.
- Updated 4th ed.
- Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2012.
- xii, 467 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"International edition"--Cover.
Children of invention revisited / Morton Winston - Perspectives on technology -- Historical perspectives -- The invention of invention / David Landes -- Industrial society and technological systems / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- The shock of the old: production / David Edgerton -- History as technological change / Rosalind Williams -- Social/political perspectives -- I’d hammer out freedom: technology as politics and culture / Richard Sclove -- Artifacts/ideas and political culture / Langdon Winner -- Addressing technological change: the challenge to social theory / Judy Wajcman -- Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science / Sheila Jasanoff -- Ethical perspectives -- Philosophy and human values / Ian Barbour -- Technology and responsibility: reflections on the new task of ethics / Hans Jonas -- Technology and social justice / Freeman Dyson -- Ethics and technology: a program for future research / Deborah C. Johnson, Thomas M. Powers -- Contemporary technology and the future -- Globalization and economic development -- The world is flat / Thomas L. Friedman -- In defense of globalization / Jagdish Bhagwati -- Making globalization work / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- What should be off-limits to globalization? / International Forum on Globalization -- Computers, information, and surveillance technologies -- Many working minds: wikis, open source software, and blogs / Cass R. Sunstein -- The consequences of the Information Revolution / Max Boot -- Bigger monster, weaker chains / Jay Stanley, Barry Steinhardt -- In praise of Big Brother: why we should learn to stop worrying and love (some) government surveillance / James Stacey Taylor -- Artificial intelligence, robotics, and nanotechnology -- Us and them / Rodney A. Brooks -- Artificial intelligence and the future / William F. Clocksin -- Why the future doesn’t need us / Bill Joy -- Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and ethics: promise and peril / Ray Kurzweil -- Biotechnology and genetic engineering -- A glimpse of things to come / Lee M. Silver -- Preventing a brave new world / Leon R. Kass -- The case against perfection / Michael J. Sandel -- Trespass / Claire Hope Cummings -- Population, energy, and climate change -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- Ethics and global climate change / Stephen M. Gardiner -- Energizing cities / Janet L. Sawin, Kristen Hughes -- The nexus and the need tree / Robert W. Kates.
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Technology--Social aspects. Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.