The commonly held conception of America as a potential utopia to be brought about technological progress is old and familiar, with many European roots. And it is a conception still shared by many Americans (and non-Americans) despite growing doubts about both America's and technology's future. The critical issue, all told, is how to live sanely and humanely in America's pervasively technological society. That is where serious discussion about America's and technology's future ought to begin. And it is the focus of this book.
The commonly held conception of America as a potential utopia to be brought about technological progress is old and familiar, with many European ro...
This collection of essays by international scholars from various disciplines addressed the theme of technological pessimism-the conviction that technology has given us the means not to achieve unlimited progress but to destroy ourselves and our most cherished values.
This collection of essays by international scholars from various disciplines addressed the theme of technological pessimism-the conviction that techno...
"Recasting the Machine Age" recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small-scale plants within sixty miles of Ford headquarters in Dearborn. The visionary who had become famous in the early twentieth century for his huge and technologically advanced Highland Park and River Rouge complexes gradually changed his focus beginning in the teens and continuing until his death in 1947.Ford may well have been motivated to spend great sums on the village...
"Recasting the Machine Age" recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factorie...
HOWARD P. SEGAL, FOR THE EDITORS In November 1979 the Humanities Department of the University of Michi gan's College of Engineering sponsored a symposium on ''Technology and Pessimism. " The symposium included scholars from a variety of fields and carefully balanced critics and defenders of modern technology, broadly defined. Although by this point it was hardly revolutionary to suggest that technology was no longer automatically equated with optimism and in turn with unceasing social advance, the idea of linking technology so explicitly with pessimism was bound to attract attention. Among...
HOWARD P. SEGAL, FOR THE EDITORS In November 1979 the Humanities Department of the University of Michi gan's College of Engineering sponsored a sympos...
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise.
Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries
Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia
Explores the many forms utopias have taken - prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities - and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace...
This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cybe...
