Controlling technology : contemporary issues / edited by Eric Katz, Andrew Light, and William Thompson.

Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2003.

532 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

2nd ed.

The fate of the earth / Jonathan Schell -- Why McDonald's french fries taste so good / Eric Schlosser -- Technology : practice and culture / Arnold Pacey -- Defining technique / Jacques Ellul -- The knowing world of things / Davis Baird -- The device paradigm / Albert Borgmann -- Can technology replace social engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- The role of technology in society / Emmanuel G. Mesthene -- Technology and culture in a developing country / Kwame Gyekye -- The autonomy of technique / Jacques Ellul.

Toward a philosophy of technology/ Hans Jonas -- Reverse adaptation and control / Langdon Winner -- Artifacts, neutrality, and the ambiguity of "use" / Russell Woodruff -- In praise of technology / Samuel C. Florman -- The autonomy of technology / Joseph C. Pitt -- Is technology autonomous? / Michael Goldhaber -- Do machines make history? / Robert Heilbroner -- Social choice in machine design : the case of automatically controlled machine tools, and a challenge for labor / David F. Noble -- Technological momentum / Thomas P. Hughes.

The ruination of the tomato / Mark Kramer -- Presumed neutrality of technology / Norman Balabanian -- Technology and politics in totalitarian regimes / Paul R. Josephson -- The political impact of technical expertise / Dorothy Nelkin -- From information to communication : the French experience with videotex / Andrew Feenberg -- Citizen virtues in a technological order / Langdon Winner -- Technological ethics in a different voice / Diane Michelfelder -- Authoritarian and democratic technics / Lewis Mumford.

Less work for mother? / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Appropriate technology and inappropriate politics / Thomas Simon -- Technorealism : an overview / David Shenk -- The computerized office : productivity puzzles / Edward Tenner -- Virtual reality : the future of cyberspace / Gordon Graham -- Technologies of the individual : women and subjectivity in the age of information / Suzanne K. Damarin -- Information and reality / Albert Borgmann.

Includes bibliographical references.