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Tables of Contents for High Tech/High Touch
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Paperback Edition
xiii
Part One - Today: Understanding Consumer Technology through Time and Play
7
106
The Intoxication Zone
9
22
America's story
9
3
Symptoms of high tech intoxication
12
19
Technology Is the Currency of Our Lives
31
34
High-touch time
32
1
High-tech time
33
3
The siren's call
36
1
Advanced simplicity
37
3
High-tech simplicity
40
2
Technology as community
42
4
Expanding time
46
2
A high-touch message through high-tech media
48
2
Labor or leisure
50
2
Recipe for escape
52
3
Escape through adventure travel
55
10
The Military-Nintendo Complex
65
48
Huge market
67
1
From ping-pong to murder
68
1
From audio and visuals to tactile
69
1
Packaged emotions
70
2
Simulation for soldiers
72
2
Serious war games
74
1
Marine doom
75
2
The military-Nintendo complex
77
2
Military games for kids
79
2
The catharsis conundrum
81
2
A culture of violence
83
2
Television and tobacco
85
2
The magical kiddy world
87
1
Electronic parenting
88
1
Conditions of a culture of violence
89
9
Education, litigation, legislation
98
15
Part Two - Tomorrow: Understanding Genetic Technology through Religion and Art
113
114
Galileo→Darwin→DNA
115
70
Geneticists: the new explorers
117
6
Germline gene therapy
123
1
The science
124
2
The promise
126
1
The concerns
127
1
Scientific concerns
128
2
Ethical concerns
130
9
Beneath the skin: genetic privacy/genetic discrimination
139
7
Genetic patenting and market-driven technologies
146
3
Theological concerns
149
9
Cloning humans
158
4
Animal, vegetable, mineral→A, C, G, and T
162
4
Genetic engineering in agriculture
166
6
Anticipating the consequences
172
1
The dogma of science and religion
173
12
Death, Sex, and the body: The New Specimen Art Movement
185
42
Ultimate specimen
187
3
Sex
190
4
The inner body
194
14
Outer body
208
6
The corporeal body
214
4
Death
218
9
Epilogue
227
6
Appendix A: Methodology
233
8
Appendix B: Profiles of Interviewees
241
30
Acknowledgments
271