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ISBN 10: 1319058256

ISBN 13: 9781319058258

Author: Rudi Volti

Society and Technological Change is the best text available for undergraduate courses exploring the relationship between societal and technological change Brimming with Rudi Volti’s expertise and enthusiasm for its dynamic subject, this always timely volume helps students grasp the vast societal implications of a wide range of technological breakthroughs, both historic and contemporary.

Society and Technological Change 8th Table of contents:

Part 1 Defining Technology

1. The Nature of Technology

2. Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change

Part Two The Process of Technological Change

3. The Sources of Technological Change

4. Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance

5. The Diffusion of Technology

Part Three How Technology Affects the Health of the Earth and Its Inhabitants

6. Technology, Energy, and the Environment

7. Medical Technologies

8. Genetic Technologies

Part Four Technology and the Transformation of Work

9. Work in Nonindustrial Societies

10. Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other?

11. Technological Change and Life on the Job

Part Five Communication

12. Printing

13. The Electronic Media: From the Telegraph to Television

14. The Internet Age

Part Six The Tools of Destruction

15. Weapons and Their Consequences

16. The Era of Smart Weapons*

17. How New Weapons Emerge—And How They May Be Contained

Part Seven The Shaping and Control of Technology

18. Technology and Its Creators: Who’s in Charge of Whom?

19. Organizations and Technological Change

20. Governing Technology

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