Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions lie serious questions. In Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? Amy Sue Bix locates the origins of this confusion in the Great Depression, when social and economic crisis forced many Americans to re-examine ideas about science, technology, and progress. Growing fear of -technological unemployment---the idea that increasing mechanization displaced human workers--prompted widespread talk about the meaning of progress in the new Machine Age. In...
Americans today often associate scientific and technological change with progress and personal well-being. Yet underneath our confident assumptions...
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world. From their founding, land-grant schools have provided educational opportunities to millions, producing many of the nation's scientific,...
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and...
