Runaway Technology

Author : Joshua A. T. Fairfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426123
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Technology written by Joshua A. T. Fairfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law can keep up with rapid technological change by reflecting our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.

Author : United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Assessment, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development...91-1, November 18, 24; December 2, 3, 4, 8, and 12, 1969 written by United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nico Stehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351323024
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biotechnology written by Nico Stehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While other books have addressed isolated aspects of recent developments in the biomedical sciences, Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society is the first book tgo engage with the full range of biotechnology's implications for social science and for society at large." -Professor Volker Meja New scientific knowledge is no longer merely the key to unlocking the secrets of nature and society. It now represents the "becoming" of a new world. Scientific developments affect the ways in which we conduct our affairs, as well as how we comprehend the changes underway as the result of novel technical artefacts and scientific knowledge. The practical fruits of biotechnology are a case in point; they have grasped our imaginations, and generated worldwide debate and concern. Debates on biotechnology shift between images of utopia and dystopia. The social sciences deserve a voice in the debate, and can do so through sober examination of the economic, social, and cultural implications of biotechnology. Some economists even predict that the importance of biotechnology as the technology of the future will far exceed that of the information technologies, in particular the Internet. The contributors to this volume are drawn from a broad spectrum of the social sciences, and include Nico Stehr, Gene Rosa, Steve Fuller, Steve Best and Douglas Kellner, Nikolas Rose, Fred Buttel, Javier Lezaun, Anne Kerr, Susanna Hornig Priest and Toby Ten Eyck, Martin Schulte, Alexander Somek, Steven P. Vallas, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby Kinchy and Raul Necochea, Herbert Gottweis, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Gysli Pblsson, Elizabeth Ettore, Richard Hindmarch and Reiner Grundmann. The impact of science on society is destined to be a fundamental concern in the new century. This volume illustrates the contributions anthropology, law, political science, and sociology can make to the ongoing discussions about the role of biotechnology in modern societies. Nico Stehr is senior research associate, Institut for Technikfolgenabschotzung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Institut for Kostenforschung, GKSS, Germany. He also is a fellow in the Center for Advanced Cultural Studies in Essen, Germany, editor of the Canadian Journal of Sociology, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among his recent books are Werner Sombart: Economic Life in the Modern Age (with Reiner Grundmann, published by Transaction); The Fragility of Modern Societies: Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age; Knowledge and Economic Conduct: The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy; and Wissenspolitik: Die ?berwachung des Wissens.

Author : Columba Peoples
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483781
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence written by Columba Peoples and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.

Author : Don Ihde
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438426402
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postphenomenology and Technoscience written by Don Ihde and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps the future of phenomenological thought, accounting for how technology expands our means of experiencing the world.

Author : Jodi Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721232
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publicity's Secret written by Jodi Dean and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, media outlets in the United States—most notably the Internet—have claimed to serve the public's ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because "the public needs to know." In Publicity's Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public's demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the "public sphere" endanger democratic politics in the information age.Dean's argument is built around analyses of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and technology, as well as the conspiracy theory subculture that has marked American history from the Declaration Independence to the political celebrity of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author claims that the media's insistence on the public's right to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and dissemination of secrets. Consequently, in her view, the theoretical ideal of the public sphere, in which all processes are transparent, reduces real-world politics to the drama of the secret and its discovery.

Author : Alan P. Rudy
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592135358
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universities in the Age of Corporate Science written by Alan P. Rudy and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asks the hard questions about partnerships between big business and American universities.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA Tech Briefs written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Eugene DePuy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing an Army written by William Eugene DePuy and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An influential Army leader records his views of recent Army history with particular emphasis on the war in Vietnam and the Steadfast reorganization.

Author : K. Yuill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113728630X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization written by K. Yuill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide – not euthanasia – are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.