Technology and society : a Canadian perspective /
"Technology and Society, second edition, continues the rich tradition of Canadian writing on technology found in the work of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, George Grant, Ursula Franklin, and others. Like the first edition, the book begins and ends with an attempt to understand Grant's ins...
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Peterborough, Ont. :
Broadview Press,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Human Beings and Technology: Basic Relationships
- Chapter 1: Technology as Fate
- Chapter 2: Creating Technology
- Chapter 3: Technological Diffusion
- Part II. Some Consequences of Technology
- Chapter 4: Technology and Economic Development
- Chapter 5: Technocracy: Class or Culture?
- Chapter 6: The D & D of R & D
- Chapter 7: Communications: Hot and Cool
- Chapter 8: Computer and Culture
- Chapter 9: Technology as Second Self
- Part III. The Evaluative Dimension
- Chapter 10: Ethical Responses to Technology
- Chapter 11: Technology, Free Will, Inequality, and FateGlossary
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- Index
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