Chapter 3: THE NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY

The Control Revolution: Technical and Economic Origins of the Information Society
James R. Beniger

The Day the Sun Rose Twice
Ferenc Morton Szasz

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman

Discovery, Innovation and Risk: Case Studies in Science and Technology
Newton H. Copp and Andrew W. Zanella

Engineering and the Mind's Eye
Eugene S. Ferguson

Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860
Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar

Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer
James L. Adams

Inventors at Work: Interviews with 16 Notable American Inventors
Kenneth A. Brown

Medical Technology and Society
Joseph D. Bronzino, Vincent H. Smith, and Maurice L. Wade

The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the '90s
Bernard L. Cohen

The Search for Solutions
Horace Freeland Judson

Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science
William J. Kaufmann III and Larry L. Smarr

Superstuff!
Fred Bortz

Technologies without Boundaries: On Telecommunications in a Global Age
Ithiel De Sola Pool

Technology and the Future, 6th ed.
Albert H. Teich (Ed.)

To Engineer is Human
Henry Petroski

Works of Man
Ronald W. Clark