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Author : Gerardus Blokdyk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780655132165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Technology and society A Clear and Concise Reference written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerardus Blokdyk
Publisher : 5starcooks
ISBN 13 : 9780655182160
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society a Clear and Concise Reference written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by 5starcooks. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the expected benefits of Technology and society to the business? Is the impact that Technology and society has shown? How does Technology and society integrate with other business initiatives? In a project to restructure Technology and society outcomes, which stakeholders would you involve? Who will be responsible for documenting the Technology and society requirements in detail? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role... In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?' This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Technology and society investments work better. This Technology and society All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person. All the tools you need to an in-depth Technology and society Self-Assessment. Featuring 702 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Technology and society improvements can be made. In using the questions you will be better able to: - diagnose Technology and society projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices - implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals - integrate recent advances in Technology and society and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Technology and society Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Technology and society areas need attention. Your purchase includes access details to the Technology and society self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. Your exclusive instant access details can be found in your book.
Author : Deborah G. Johnson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262303388
Total Pages : 853 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society written by Deborah G. Johnson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future. Technological change does not happen in a vacuum; decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. This anthology focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values. It offers writings by authorities as varied as Freeman Dyson, Laurence Lessig, Bruno Latour, and Judy Wajcman that will introduce readers to recent thinking about technology and provide them with conceptual tools, a theoretical framework, and knowledge to help understand how technology shapes society and how society shapes technology. It offers readers a new perspective on such current issues as globalization, the balance between security and privacy, environmental justice, and poverty in the developing world. The careful ordering of the selections and the editors' introductions give Technology and Society a coherence and flow that is unusual in anthologies. The book is suitable for use in undergraduate courses in STS and other disciplines. The selections begin with predictions of the future that range from forecasts of technological utopia to cautionary tales. These are followed by writings that explore the complexity of sociotechnical systems, presenting a picture of how technology and society work in step, shaping and being shaped by one another. Finally, the book goes back to considerations of the future, discussing twenty-first-century challenges that include nanotechnology, the role of citizens in technological decisions, and the technologies of human enhancement.
Author : Jan L. Harrington
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 0763750948
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society written by Jan L. Harrington and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Society illustrates the impact of technological change, both positive and negative, on our world. The author looks at how technology has brought many positive advancements to our society, and also discusses the significant repercussions that we need to consider. Ideal for use in numerous courses taught throughout the Computer Science curriculum, Technology and Society will help students turn outward from their technical studies and look at technology from a global perspective.
Author : Andrew Ede
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425607
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society written by Andrew Ede and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.
Author : Wiebe E. Bijker
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262521376
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Social Construction of Technological Systems written by Wiebe E. Bijker and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakeable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book have been written by a diverse group of scholars united by a common interest in creating a new field - the sociology of technology. They draw on a wide array of case studies - from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15th-century Portugal to today's Al labs - to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions"--Back cover.
Author : Andrew Murray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198732465
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Information Technology Law written by Andrew Murray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Technology Law is the ideal companion for a course of study on IT law and the ways in which it is evolving in response to rapid technological and social change. The third edition of this ground-breaking textbook develops its unique examination of the legal processes and their relationship to the modern 'information society'. Charting the development of the rapid digitization of society and its impact on established legal principles, Murray examines the challenges faced with enthusiasm and clarity. Following a clearly-defined part structure, the text begins by defining the infomation society and discussing how it may be regulated, before moving on to explore issues of internet governance, privacy and surveillance, intellectual property and rights, and commerce within the digital sphere. Comprehensive and engaging, Information Technology Law takes an original and thought-provoking approach to examining this fast-moving area of law in context. Online Resource Centre The third edition is supported by a range of online resources, including: - An additional chapter on Virtual Environments - Audio podcasts suitable for revision - Updates to the law post-publication - A flashcard glossary of key terms and concepts - Outline answers to end of chapter questions - A link to the author's blog, The IT Lawyer - Web links
Author : Rudi Volti
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478652861
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Society and Technological Change written by Rudi Volti and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society and Technological Change continues to be the essential text for exploring the relationship between human societies and the ever-evolving landscape of technology. The ninth edition follows the historical trajectory of technological development and its profound impact on various aspects of human life, from communication and healthcare to economic systems and governance. At the same time, it shows how these technologies have themselves been shaped by social, economic, cultural, and political forces, and that the study of technology is important not just for its own sake but also for what it tells us about the kinds of societies we make for ourselves. With its engaging writing style and thought-provoking content, this new edition continues to be an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and anyone seeking a deep understanding of the intricate bond between society and technology in our ever-evolving world.
Author : Victor Ferkiss
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814726178
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Nature, Technology, and Society written by Victor Ferkiss and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferkiss (emeritus, government, Georgetown U.) delves thoughtfully into how various civilizations and cultures, including Western civilization, have historically looked at humanity, nature, and technology. He then looks at the conflicting attitudes of contemporary thinkers, seeking a balance, but maintaining a bias toward reverence for nature and an unwillingness to allow technology and its owners to set all the terms. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : James Gerrie
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554812801
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society: A Philosophical Guide written by James Gerrie and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Society provides an up-to-date introduction to the basic issues that have come to define the philosophy of technology: What is “technology”? Does technology control our lives? What is technology’s relation to ethics? How does technology influence us? Is the widespread belief in technological progress justified? Later sections of the book examine the application of philosophy of technology to social issues such as climate change, urban sprawl, and automation. Major issues and arguments are presented in an accessible and non-technical fashion, giving the reader a firm foundation in the field.
Author : Chris Ategeka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119817595
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)
Download or read book The Unintended Consequences of Technology written by Chris Ategeka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the technologies and trends that threaten humanity and our planet--- and how we can rein them back in, together In The Unintended Consequences of Technology: Solutions, Breakthroughs and the Restart We Need, accomplished tech entrepreneur Chris Ategeka delivers an insightful and eye-opening exploration of the challenges and the opportunities at the intersection of technology, society and our planet. Detailing both positive and negative technology use cases that on one hand have made humanity better, but on the other hand pose a serious threat to individuals and groups across the world, the author demonstrates how to avoid allowing powerful technologies to overcome our better natures. In this book, you'll: Discover how the forces of capitalism, greed and the myths that surround meritocracy when combined with exponential technology pose an existential risk for humanity. Explore the many exponential technologies such as gene editing, 5G, behavior modification, cyberspace… that have lots of promise but also uncertainty. Consider the future of humanity we wish to collectively build, and whether we can rebuild a capacity for empathy at scale in our tech tools Perfect for founders, business leaders, executives, managers, Chief Technology Officers, and anyone else [i.e. all human beings] responsible for the use and proliferation of advanced technologies. The Unintended Consequences of Technology is a thought-provoking, must-read resource for those at the forefront of our new technological reality.
Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593315685
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Technological Society written by Jacques Ellul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful reading of this book. "A magnificent book . . . He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendered efficient, and diminished in the process.”—Harper's “One of the most important books of the second half of the twentieth-century. In it, Jacques Ellul convincingly demonstrates that technology, which we continue to conceptualize as the servant of man, will overthrow everything that prevents the internal logic of its development, including humanity itself—unless we take necessary steps to move human society out of the environment that 'technique' is creating to meet its own needs.”—The Nation “A description of the way in which technology has become completely autonomous and is in the process of taking over the traditional values of every society without exception, subverting and suppressing these values to produce at last a monolithic world culture in which all non-technological difference and variety are mere appearance.”—Los Angeles Free Press
Author : Thomas P. Hughes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612066X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Human-Built World written by Thomas P. Hughes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.
Author : Harvard University. Program on Technology and Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Technology and Values written by Harvard University. Program on Technology and Society and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis R. Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Technology and Social Change written by Francis R. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Levent V. Orman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781479249312
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Technology and Its Discontents written by Levent V. Orman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are defined by the tools and technologies we use. They shape our identity. They feed and shelter us. But they also threaten our very existence. What separates us from all other animals is primarily the plethora of tools and technologies we created for our well-being and for our very survival. They are the source of our admirable success as a species; and they are the source of our most terrifying problems. Sometimes, they are the only solution to the very problems they created. That puts us in a race against ourselves, a race among technologies, a race between the good they do and the misery they cause, often the same technology doing both at different times and under different conditions. This has been the human condition from the beginning of our species, and it will likely be the human condition at the end. Although we appear helpless, being dragged along a road carved by our own creations, there are some things we can do to minimize the risk to ourselves, without giving up all the advantages of a myriad of technologies we created. We may not be able to eliminate the basic paradox of human existence, but we may somewhat reduce the suffering. This book is about the beauty and the misery of our technological human society, offering some modest remedies for the misery, while praising the beauty.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Technology and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
