Technology and Choice: Readings from Technology and Culture - Softcover

 
9780226467771: Technology and Choice: Readings from Technology and Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226467775 ISBN 13: 9780226467771
Verlag: University of Chicago Press Journals, 1991

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Innovation - the imaginative attempt to introduce something new or to solve some problem - smashes routine and demands choice, even if only the choice to retain the status quo. This collection of fourteen essays provides a spectrum of historical perspectives on how, when, or why, individuals, societies, governments, and industries have made choices regarding the use of technologies.

Through historical accounts that span centuries and national boundaries, exploring the complexity of a nuclear power plant and the apparent simplicity of an electrical plug, the contributors to this volume dramatically illustrate the push and pull between technology and society. General topics addressed include:
Regulation of private industry
Social acceptance of commercial innovation
Negative perceptions of the "Technological Age"
Cultural and artistic features of technology Provocative and accessible, this collection will serve both students and faculty in history, sociology, and public policy, as well as in history and philosophy of science and technology.

These essays were originally published in the journal Technology and Culture

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette is an independent historian who has taught at the Johns Hopkins University, the George Washington University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of several books, including Making Science Our Own: Public Images of Science, 1910-1955, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century.

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Innovation-- the imaginative attempt to introduce something new or to solve some problem-- smashes routine and demands choice, even if only the choice to retain the status quo. This collection of fourteen essays provides a spectrum of historical perspectives on how, when, or why individuals, societies, governments, and industries have made choices regarding the use of technologies.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press Journals
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226467775
ISBN 13 
9780226467771
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
350
Herausgeber
LaFollette Marcel Chotkowski, Stine Jeffrey K.
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