Society and technological change
- Title
- Society and technological change / Rudi Volti.
- Published by
- New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1995.
- Author
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| Status | FormatText | AccessUse in library | Call numberT14.5 .V67 1995 | Item locationOff-site |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 315 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Alternative title
- Society & technological change.
- Subject
- Contents
- pt. 1. Orientations -- Nature of technology -- Winners and losers: the differential effects of technological change -- What technology can do, and what it cannot do -- pt. 2. The process of technological change -- Sources of Technological change -- Scientific knowledge and technological advance -- The diffusion of technology -- Technology, energy and the environment -- Medical and biological technologies -- pt. 3. Technology and the transformation of work -- Work in nonindustrial societies -- Technology and jobs: technological change and life on the job -- pt. 4. Communication -- Printing -- Electronic media -- pt. 5. The tools of destruction -- Weapons and their consequences -- How new weapons emerge and how they may be contained -- pt. 6. The shaping and control of technology -- Technology and its creators -- Organizations and technological change -- Government and the control of technology.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-301) and index.