Technical Fouls: Democracy And Technological Change

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What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367318192
ISBN-10: 0367318199
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction -- Technology as a Cultural System -- The Specter of Automation -- Aimless Accuracy -- Weeding Them Out -- Emancipating Nature -- Epilogue

Notă biografică

John Kurt Jacobsen is research associate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Chasing Progress: Ideology, Industry and Dependent Development in Ireland.

Descriere

This book examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies. It offers a theoretical synthesis of critiques of technology and a theory of how ideas are employed by groups in order to enhance their own power.

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