Society, ethics, and technology / Morton E. Winston, Ralph D. Edelbach

Published: Boston, MA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, [2014]
Copyright Date: ©2014
Edition: 5th ed.
Physical Description: xv, 459 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Winston, Morton Emanuel and Edelbach, Ralph

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Perspectives on Technology -- 1.1.Historical Perspectives -- 1.1.1.Something for Nothing / James Burke -- 1.1.2.Industrial Society and Technological Systems / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- 1.1.3.Containerization and Globalization: An Innovation and Its Impact / Arthur Donovan -- 1.1.4.History as Technological Change / Rosalind Williams -- 1.2.Social/Political Perspectives -- 1.2.1.I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture / Richard Sclove -- 1.2.2.Democratic Rationalization / Andrew Feenberg -- 1.2.3.Technologies of Humility: Citizen Participation in Governing Science / Sheila Jasanoff -- 1.2.4.Addressing Technological Change: The Challenge to Social Theory / Judy Wajcman -- 1.3.Ethical Perspectives -- 1.3.1.Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Task of Ethics / Hans Jonas -- 1.3.2.Constructing the Professional Responsibility of Engineers / Michael Davis -- 1.3.3.Technological Subversion / David Strong -- 1.3.4.Ethics and Technology: A Program for Future Research / Thomas M. Powers -- pt. Two Contemporary Technology and the Future -- 2.1.Security and Surveillance -- 2.1.1.The Consequences of the Information Revolution / Max Boot -- 2.1.2.The Automation and Proliferation of Military Drones and the Protection of Civilians / Noel Sharkey -- 2.1.3.Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains / Barry Steinhardt -- 2.1.4.In Praise of Big Brother / James Stacey Taylor -- 2.2.Artificial Intelligence and Robotics -- 2.2.1.Birth of a Robot / Abigail Tucker -- 2.2.2.Ethics in Advanced Robotics / Fiorella Operto -- 2.2.3.Final Jeopardy / Stephen Baker -- 2.3.Nanotechnology -- 2.3.1.Neuroscience, Nanotechnology, and Ethics: Promise and Peril / Ray Kurzweil -- 2.3.2.Emerging Nanomaterial Governance Systems: The State of Play / Lynn L. Bergeson -- 2.3.3.Nanotechnology---A New Field of Ethical Inquiry? / Armin Grunwald -- 2.4.Internet and Social Media -- 2.4.1.Is Google Making Us Stupid? / Nicholas Carr -- 2.4.2.Corporate Censorship / Rebecca Mackinnon -- 2.4.3.Technical code and the Social construction of the Internet / Jon Flanigan -- 2.5.Biotechnology -- 2.5.1.Our Posthuman Future / Francis Fukuyama -- 2.5.2.Preventing a Brave New World / Leon R. Kass -- 2.5.3.The Case against Perfection / Michael J. Sandel -- 2.6.Energy and the Environment -- 2.6.1.The Nexus and the Neem Tree / Robert W. Kates -- 2.6.2.Global Warming / Donald Aitken -- 2.6.3.Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy / David Fridley -- 2.6.4.Stabilizing Climate: An Energy Efficiency Revolution / Lester Brown.

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ISBN

1133943551
9781133943556
1133943586 (pbk.)
9781133943587

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-459).

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