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Tables of Contents for Society, Ethics, and Technology
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
How to Use This Book
xvii
Introduction: Morton Winston. ``Children of Invention''
1
20
Part I: Perspectives on Technological Society
21
142
Historical Perspectives
Homo Sapiens
22
16
J. M. Roberts
The Act of Invention
38
10
Lynn White, Jr.
Giving Up the Gun
48
4
Noel Perrin
Industrial Society and Technological Systems
52
17
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Social Perspectives
Women and the Assessment of Technology
69
14
Corlann Gee Bush
Invisible Technologies
83
10
Neil Postman
I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture
93
9
Richard E. Sclove
Revenge Theory
102
5
Edward Tenner
Artifacts/Ideas and Political Culture
107
7
Langdon Winner
Philosophical Perspectives
Techonolgy and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics
114
11
Hans Jonas
Technology, Demography, and the Anachronism of Traditional Rights
125
13
Robert E. McGinn
Technology and Social Justice
138
10
Freeman Dyson
Technological Subversion of Environmental Ethics
148
11
David Strong
The New Luddite Challenge
159
4
Ray Kurzweil
Part II Contemporary Technologies and the Future
163
160
Information, Automation, and the Global Economy
The End of Work
164
7
Jeremy Rifkin
The Global Information Highway
171
10
Herbert Schiller
International Economics: Unlocking the Mysteries of Globalization
181
7
Jeffrey Sachs
The One Best Way
188
11
Virginia Postrel
Computers, Communications, and Robotics
Information and Our Interactive Future
199
6
Bill Gates
Computer and Privacy
205
18
Stacey L. Edgar
The Constitution in Cyberspace
223
8
Laurence H. Tribe
Universal Robots
231
10
Hans Moravec
Biotechnology and Human Reproduction
Frankenstein's Monster and Other Horror Stories
241
5
Enzo Russo
David Cove
Biocaptalism: What Price the Genetic Revolution?
246
7
David Shenk
Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning
253
6
Robert Wachbroit
Reproductive Technology: Delivered in to Men's Hands
259
16
Judy Wajcman
Population, Energy, and Environmental Policy
Power Shock: The Energy Revolution
275
9
Christopher Flavin
The Tragedy of the Commons
284
10
Garrett Hardin
Sustaining Life on the Earth
294
8
Robert W. Kates
Building a New Economy
302
21
Lester Brown
Jennifer Mitchell
Selected Bibliography of Books for Further Reading
323