Engineers for change : competing visions of technology in 1960s America /

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Colección:Engineering studies series.
Temas:
Technology > Social aspects > United States.
Technological forecasting > United States.
Prévision technologique > États-Unis.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Technological forecasting
Technology > Social aspects
United States
ENGINEERING/General
HUMANITIES/History
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From system builders to servants of the system
  • 3. Technics-out-of-control as a theme in engineering thought
  • 4. The crisis of technology as a crisis of responsibility
  • 5. The system and its discontents
  • 6. Three bridges to creative renewal
  • 7. Making socio-technologists
  • 8. Epilogue.

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