| Topical Table of Contents | xi |
| PART 1. THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY | 1 |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Does Improved Technology Mean Progress? | 3 |
| Leo Marx | |
| Disappearing through the Skylight | 15 |
| 0. B. Hardison, Jr. | |
| Can Technology Replace Social Engineering? | 30 |
| Alvin M. Weinberg | |
| The Control Revolution | 40 |
| James R. Beniger | |
| Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer | 66 |
| Wendell Berry | |
| The Role of Technology in Society | 73 |
| Emmanuel G. Mesthene | |
| Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals | 89 |
| John McDermott | |
| Technology and the Tragic View | 108 |
| Samuel C. Florman | |
| PART 2. FORECASTING, ASSESSING, AND CONTROLLING THE IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY | 119 |
| Introduction | 119 |
| The New World Order | 121 |
| Lester R. Brown | |
| Great Expectations: Why Technology Predictions Go Awry | 150 |
| Herb Brody | |
| An Unforeseen Revolution: Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985 | 160 |
| Paul Ceruzzi | |
| Choosing Our Pleasures and Our Poisons | 175 |
| William W. Lowrance | |
| Women and the Assessment of Technology | 192 |
| Corlann Gee Bush | |
| Controlling Technology | 215 |
| Allan C. Mazur | |
| PART 3. RESHAPING TECHNOLOGY | 229 |
| Introduction | 229 |
| Buddhist Economics | 231 |
| E. F Schumacher | |
| Can Technology Be Humane? | 239 |
| Paul Goodman | |
| Blue Collar Women | 256 |
| Mary Lindenstein Walshok | |
| Science, Technology, | |
| and Black Community Development | 265 |
| Robert C. Johnson | |
| Artifact/Ideas and Political Culture | 283 |
| Langdon Winner | |
| PART 4. USING TECHNOLOGIES AND CONFRONTING THEIR DILEMMAS | 293 |
| Introduction | 293 |
| Special Care: Medical Decisions at the Beginning of Life | 295 |
| Fred M. Frohock | |
| The Dark Side of the Genome | 318 |
| Robert A. Weinberg | |
| Less Work for Mother? | 329 |
| Ruth Schwartz Cowan | |
| In the Age of the Smart Machine | 340 |
| Shoshana Zuboff | |
| Virtual Reality and Teledildonics | 350 |
| Howard Rheingold | |
| Technology Policy: What Should It Do? | 366 |
| Stephen J. Kline and Don E. Kash | |
| About the Author | 385 |