Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues - Softcover

Thompson, William B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879756160 ISBN 13: 9780879756161

Publisher: Prometheus Books UK, 1991

Synopsis

Controlling Technology brings together widely conflicting views concerning the nature of modern technology as it relates to the quality of everyday life and to the larger problem of human survival on this planet. The thesis that technology has indeed become autonomous is contrasted with the position that, by its very nature, technology can only exist under human control. Thirty-four insightful essays are divided into eight parts, each with its own introduction summarizing the chapters and placing them in their appropriate contexts.

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About the Author

Eric Katz (Newark, NJ) is professor of philosophy and director of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the author of Nature as Subject: Human Obligation and Natural Community, among other books.
Andrew Light (New York, NY) is assistant professor of Environmental Philosophy and director of the Environmental Conservation Education Program at New York University. He is the editor of Technology and the Good Life?
William B. Thompson (Potsdam, NY) is professor emeritus of philosophy at SUNY College at Potsdam.

Synopsis

A collection of readings, spanning an authorial range from Karl Marx to Studs Terkel, that focus on the conflicting views and arguments concerning the nature of modern technological systems as they relate to the quality of everyday life and to the larger problems of human survival on the planet. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prometheus Books UK
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879756160
• ISBN 13: 9780879756161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 465