The Labyrinth of Technology : : A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out / / Willem Vanderburg.
Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis and the possible limits to growth...
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Vanderburg, Willem, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Labyrinth of Technology : A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out / Willem Vanderburg. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2000 1 online resource (494 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Heritage Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: PREVENTIVE APPROACHES -- 1. Preventive Approaches as a New Technology and Economic Strategy -- 2. Individual Prerequisites for Preventive Approaches -- 3. Collective Prerequisites for Preventive Approaches -- PART TWO. THE ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND MAP-MAKING -- 4. Tools for Map-Making -- 5. Context Values for Map-Making -- PART THREE. A GENERIC MAP OF THE ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT MATRICES -- 6. Differentiating Sustainable Development -- 7. Differentiating a Way of Life -- PART FOUR. APPLICATIONS OF PREVENTIVE APPROACHES -- General Introduction -- 8. Materials and Production -- 9. Energy -- 10. Work -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why does modern technology succeed so brilliantly in some respects and simultaneously fail in others? While he was completing a doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering in the late 60s and early 70s, Willem Vanderburg became convinced that the environmental crisis and the possible limits to growth would require a fundamental change in the engineering, management and regulation of technology.In this volume he exposes the limitations of conventional approaches in these fields. Modern societies urgently need to rethink the intellectual division of labour in science and technology and the corresponding organization of the university, corporation, and government in order to get out of a self-destructive pattern where problems are first created by some than then dealt with by others, making it almost impossible to get to the roots of anything. The result is what he calls the labyrinth of technology, a growing patchwork of compensations that merely displace and transform problems from one place to another. The author's diagnosis suggests the remedy: a new, preventive strategy that situates technological and economic growth in its human, societal, and biospheric contexts, and calls for a synthesis of methods in engineering, management, and public policy, and of approaches in the social sciences and humanities. He also suggests that this same synthesis can be applied in medicine, law, social work, and other professions.The Labyrinth of Technology is a unique and invaluable text for students, academics and laypersons in all disciplines, and speaks to those who are torn between the benefits that modern technology provides and the difficulties it creates in our individual and collective lives. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) DISCOUNT-B. SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh print 9780802083852 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442621077 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442621077 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442621077.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: PREVENTIVE APPROACHES -- 1. Preventive Approaches as a New Technology and Economic Strategy -- 2. Individual Prerequisites for Preventive Approaches -- 3. Collective Prerequisites for Preventive Approaches -- PART TWO. THE ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND MAP-MAKING -- 4. Tools for Map-Making -- 5. Context Values for Map-Making -- PART THREE. A GENERIC MAP OF THE ECOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY AND CONTEXT MATRICES -- 6. Differentiating Sustainable Development -- 7. Differentiating a Way of Life -- PART FOUR. APPLICATIONS OF PREVENTIVE APPROACHES -- General Introduction -- 8. Materials and Production -- 9. Energy -- 10. Work -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index |
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