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Ediciones Upc, S.l. The Meaning Of Technology. Selected Readings From American Sources
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9788483017333MPN: 9788483017333
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Libro: The Meaning of technology. Selected readings from American sources (978-84-8301-733-3) de Ginés Gibert, Montserrat (Ediciones UPC, S.L. ) Comprar Libros de Ciencias Técnicas .Ingeniería .Ingeniería Mecánica .. The significance of "technology" has been subject of continuous discussion. This selection of readings, ranging from primary sources to scholarly and critical works and literary renderings, is intended to furnish elements for that discussion. The history of the United States began with the advent of the industrial revolution, which, in turn, became an integral part of American national and cultural identity. Accordingly, that country provides an appropriate setting in which to examine the debate on technology. The reader is asked to relate the selected views herein included to his or her own notion of technology and progress as they both relate to the also controversial terms of culture, ideology, nature and gender 0 Preface >> Introduction >> Let our workshops remain in Europe >> Republican technology >> The celestial factory >> From the lowell mills >> The sea to our doors >> Mastering time and space >> Global linking >> The railroad in Europe and America >> Obsolescence >>The gospel of efficiency >> Praising the automobile >> A motor car for the great multitude >> The american plan >> The roats of american automobile culture >> Suburbia >> The great white way >> Nuclear Peril >> We have no national policy fos science >> Cold war technology >> ENIAC >> Two cultures >> The military-industrial establishment >> Man's assault upon the environment >> DDT >> The technological imperative >> Technocracy >> Human-scale technology >> A nation of system builders >> Technology as a social process >> The postindustrial wave >> Technical artifacts and power >> Engineering and the liberal arts >> The associations of technoscience >> Gendered technology >> Emergence of the word "Technology" >> "Nature" >> The culture of simulation >> Digital future >> Closed world and green worlds >> How society shapes technology >> Further reading
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