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...
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology and the role it has played in the social, cultural, political and economic development of the American nation, from the 1600s to the 21st century.
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology and the role it has played in the social, cultural...
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology and the role it has played in the social, cultural, political and economic development of the American nation, from the 1600s to the 21st century.
Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology and the role it has played in the social, cultural...
