Technology and Society : : A Canadian Perspective, Second Edition / / John Goyder.
Since the publication of the first edition of Technology and Society: A Canadian Perspective in 1997, awareness of the pervasive effects of new and emerging technologies on our lives is, if anything, even more pronounced. New and emerging technologies in everything from health care to communication...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 2nd Edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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 Fate
- Glossary
- Index