The Trouble With Technology
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The Trouble With Technology
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Author : Stuart Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1983
The Trouble With Technology written by Stuart Macdonald and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Business & Economics categories.
Technology Lost
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Author : Ron Schneiderman
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 2002-08
Technology Lost written by Ron Schneiderman and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08 with categories.
Technology is hard and takes time to develop, but often other issues, ranging from the development of technical standards, regulations, politics, bureaucracy, and legal issues get in the way and slow its development. This book is about how technologies emerge and provides several examples of technologies that have been highly touted for years (including HDTV, artificial intelligence, mobile communications satellites, and WAP) and are only now beginning to appear in any significant way as real products or services.
The Trouble With Computers
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Author : Thomas K. Landauer
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1995
The Trouble With Computers written by Thomas K. Landauer and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Computers categories.
Beginning with an explanation of why considerable outlays for computing since 1973 have not resulted in comparable payoffs, the author proposes that emerging techniques for user-centred development can turn the situation around - through task analysis, ite
The Promise Of Access
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Author : Daniel Greene
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-04-06
The Promise Of Access written by Daniel Greene and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better. Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the contradictions of a changing economy. Greene shows how the digital divide emerged as a policy problem and why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.
Theory Of Technology
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Author : David Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date :
Theory Of Technology written by David Clarke and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Technology & Engineering categories.
The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away--sometimes for millennia. Sometimes, technology comes to a standstill, and sometimes, it even reverses itself. Thus, unlike science, which seems to proceed at a reasonable and calm rate, the progress of technology is difficult to theorize about. While in science many developments are predictable to a certain extent and this predictability may, at times, direct or stymie science's progress--as with stem-cell research and cloning--technological advances, such as the Internet, are often sudden and unpredictable, and therefore frightening. In "Theory of Technology," David Clarke brings together nine authors who try to understand technology from a variety of viewpoints. Rias van Wyk, in "Technology," parses the concept into many angles, including its anatomy, taxonomy, and evolution. Karol Pelc, in "Knowledge Mapping," discusses tracking the evolution of the emerging discipline of technology management. Jon Beard, in "Management of Technology," pursues a similar mapping endeavor, but looks to the patterns of the "literature" of technology management. Thomas Clarke, in "Unique Features of an R&D Work Environment and Research Scientists and Engineers," takes the reader on a tour of how people of technology present unique challenges to not just management but whole organizations. Richard Howey, in "Understanding Software Technology," places enterprise software into a meaningful pattern of technology management. Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein, in "The Half-Life of Policy Rationales," discuss how new technology affects old policy issues. John Cogan, in "Some Philosophical Thoughts on the Nature of Technology," maintains that our Aristotelian search for the essence of technology is doomed. And Peter Bond, in "The Biology of Technology," establishes a basis for the development of a socio-biological approach to understanding the phenomena of technological society and technical change. ""Theory of Technology" is an important book. It recognizes the near impossibility of forecasting technological progress, or of planning the trajectory that a new technology may take. It goes beyond other studies in showing how understanding of the nature of technology itself is the necessary first step in removing levels of uncertainty from charting those trajectories as they impact our daily lives."-Paul Ceruzzi, curator, Aerospace Electronics and Computing, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution "Unstuffy. ["Theory of Technology" is] a sheltered workshop for the atheoretical in technology studies." -Russell Maulitz, Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine "Technology is one of those words whose meaning and importance we intuitively know, but have trouble defining and fully understanding. Technology is becoming ever more ubiquitous in our lives and economies, and harnessing it in predictable ways ever more important. "Theory of Technology" goes a long way toward building a framework of analysis and perspective to overcome these limitations, and thus toward helping us bring order to our thinking and our ability to employ in orderly ways one of the keys to contemporary life." -Thomas J. Duesterberg, President and CEO, Manufacturers ""Theory of Technology" is an excellent and challenging introduction to the field-also for the uninitiated. It offers a history of the discipline, of its attempts to better understand the nature of technology from, among others, philosophical and biological perspectives, and discusses the management of technology and its policy consequences. In also analyzing the semantics of technology theory and practice-a brave enterprise in these days of fads and fashions in wordings and phrases-it not only seeks the (self-)discipline that is needed to support the scientific status of the field but may indeed help increase actual influence on technology practice and policy." -Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc, professor of public administration, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands "David Clarke's new book about the "Theory of Technology" is the most comprehensive, multifaceted, and challenging treatment of the subject to date. It also makes a very interesting read. Instead of looking at technology from the perspective of just one author, Mr. Clarke has chosen to ask some of the most respected and provocative experts in the field to look at technology from a variety of major angles that nicely and completely encircle and illuminate the subject. I don't think there is an aspect of modern technology that isn't covered in an entertaining and informative fashion. My profession as a patent attorney puts me in direct, daily contact with the practical aspects of all new technologies. Mr. Clarke's well organized and enjoyable book has helped me appreciate the bigger context of my work. It will stay on the bookshelf in my office in the company of just a handful of other books that give me a better understanding about the world in which we live." -R. C. Woodbridge, Princeton, NJ "Technology is one of those words whose meaning and importance we intuitively know, but have trouble defining and fully understanding. Technology is becoming ever more ubiquitous in our lives and economies, and harnessing it in predictable ways ever more important. "Theory of Technology" goes a long way toward building a framework of analysis and perspective to overcome these limitations, and thus toward helping us bring order to our thinking and our ability to employ in orderly ways one of the keys to contemporary life." -Thomas J. Duesterberg, President and CEO, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI David Clarke, professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University, has degrees in philosophy, architecture, management science, and urban design. His is the editor of "Technology and Terrorism," published by Transaction, as well as the editor of the Transaction journal "Knowledge, Technology, & Policy."
Technopoly
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Author : Neil Postman
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1992
Technopoly written by Neil Postman and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Political Science categories.
In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, education, intelligence, and truth. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Plenty And Trouble
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Author : Robert H. Hamill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Plenty And Trouble written by Robert H. Hamill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Analysis and forecast of the impact of technology on human life and environment, with particular reference to the philosophy of the Christian Church thereon. Bibliography pp. 185 to 189 and references.
Innovation And Its Enemies
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Author : Calestous Juma
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-06
Innovation And Its Enemies written by Calestous Juma and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-06 with Political Science categories.
It is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and concern for public welfare. At the root of this tension is the perception that the benefits of new technologies will accrue only to small sections of society, while the risks will be more widely distributed. Drawing from nearly 600 years of technology history, Calestous Juma identifies the tension between the need for innovation and the pressure to maintain continuity, social order, and stability as one of today's biggest policy challenges. He reveals the extent to which modern technological controversies grow out of distrust in public and private institutions and shows how new technologies emerge, take root, and create new institutional ecologies that favor their establishment in the marketplace. Innovation and Its Enemies calls upon public leaders to work with scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to manage technological change and expand public engagement on scientific and technological matters.
Conscientious Objections
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Author : Neil Postman
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-06-08
Conscientious Objections written by Neil Postman and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Social Science categories.
In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.
Men Machines And Modern Times 50th Anniversary Edition
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Author : Elting E. Morison
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-08-26
Men Machines And Modern Times 50th Anniversary Edition written by Elting E. Morison and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history. People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor—the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic—describes how we learn to live and work with innovation. Elting Morison considers, among other things, the three stages of users' resistance to change: ignoring it; rational rebuttal; and name-calling. He recounts the illustrative anecdote of the World War II artillerymen who stood still to hold the horses despite the fact that the guns were now hitched to trucks—reassuring those of us who have trouble with a new interface or a software upgrade that we are not the first to encounter such problems. Morison offers an entertaining series of historical accounts to highlight his major theme: the nature of technological change and society's reaction to that change. He begins with resistance to innovation in the U.S. Navy following an officer's discovery of a more accurate way to fire a gun at sea; continues with thoughts about bureaucracy, paperwork, and card files; touches on rumble seats, the ghost in Hamlet, and computers; tells the strange history of a new model steamship in the 1860s; and describes the development of the Bessemer steel process. Each instance teaches a lesson about the more profound and current problem of how to organize and manage systems of ideas, energies, and machinery so that it will conform to the human dimension.