Technology Choices

Author : Diane E. Bailey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028425
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Choices written by Diane E. Bailey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work. Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection. In Technology Choices, Diane Bailey and Paul Leonardi argue that occupational factors—rather than personal preference or purely technological concerns—strongly shape workers' technology choices. Drawing on extensive field work—a decade's worth of observations and interviews in seven engineering firms in eight countries—Bailey and Leonardi challenge the traditional views of technology choices: technological determinism and social constructivism. Their innovative occupational perspective allows them to explore how external forces shape ideas, beliefs, and norms in ways that steer individuals to particular technology choices—albeit in somewhat predictable and generalizable ways. They examine three relationships at the heart of technology choices: human to technology, technology to technology, and human to human. An occupational perspective, they argue, helps us not only to understand past technology choices, but also to predict future ones.

Author : Diane E. Bailey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262323699
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology Choices written by Diane E. Bailey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the occupational factors that shape the technology choices made by people who perform the same type of work. Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection. In Technology Choices, Diane Bailey and Paul Leonardi argue that occupational factors—rather than personal preference or purely technological concerns—strongly shape workers' technology choices. Drawing on extensive field work—a decade's worth of observations and interviews in seven engineering firms in eight countries—Bailey and Leonardi challenge the traditional views of technology choices: technological determinism and social constructivism. Their innovative occupational perspective allows them to explore how external forces shape ideas, beliefs, and norms in ways that steer individuals to particular technology choices—albeit in somewhat predictable and generalizable ways. They examine three relationships at the heart of technology choices: human to technology, technology to technology, and human to human. An occupational perspective, they argue, helps us not only to understand past technology choices, but also to predict future ones.

Author : États-Unis. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428921532
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Technology Choices written by États-Unis. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781568061603
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Technology Choices written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an evaluation of the technical risks and opportunities facing America's energy future. Not an exhaustive analysis of any one technology, rather, it draws together the main themes of various energy reports from the past 16 years. An outline of the main directions America could follow. 40 charts and tables.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1422349608
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Technology Choices: Shaping Our Future written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Office of Technology Assessment
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Technology Choices written by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment and published by Office of Technology Assessment. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matej Makarovič
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783631808214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Social Choices in the Era of Social Transformations written by Matej Makarovič and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of humanity, the dialectic relationship between technology and society has been one of the driving forces behind changes in both realms. Trends in technological developments and their applications are, ultimately, the result of individual and collective choices. At the same time, technology influences the social choices of individuals, small groups and entire societies. This book focuses on two closely related ideas: technological development and social choices. While relating them, the book shows the relationship between human individuals and their agency; social structures, both as the initial context and as resulting from human agency; and technology that has been developed and applied by human agents' choices within social contexts.

Author : Vivek Wadhwa
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626569738
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Driver in the Driverless Car written by Vivek Wadhwa and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa uses this book to alert us to dozens of them and raise important questions about what they may mean for us. Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, self-driving vehicles, drones, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. But the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening, alienating future: eugenics, a jobless economy, complete loss of privacy, and ever-worsening economic inequality. As Wadhwa puts it, our choices will determine if our future is Star Trek or Mad Max. Wadhwa offers us three questions to ask about every emerging technology: Does it have the potential to benefit everyone equally? What are its risks and rewards? And does it promote autonomy or dependence? Looking at a broad array of advances in this light, he emphasizes that the future is up to us to create—that even if our hands are not on the wheel, we will decide the driverless car's destination.

Author : Ruby Roy Dholakia
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461421586
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology and Consumption written by Ruby Roy Dholakia and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology and Household Consumption is a comprehensive text that provides insights into technology’s impact on consumer behavior and the household environment. Consumption and consumer behavior has become a very important subject of study that is now covered in many disciplines including family economics, culture studies, and feminist/women studies. In the first section, this book provides a historical perspective on how consumer behaviors have changed because of technology and how technology itself has changed. Data on ownership and expenditures is detailed in describing the penetration of technology in the household and changes over time. In the examination of demographics and social changes, an emphasis is placed on women and children. As it is important to understand the entry paths and factors that influence them, the book also introduces a research framework to understanding the adoption and utilization of household technologies. In the second section, the book examines specific household technologies and consumption experiences including shopping choices and behaviors, entertainment outlets and availability, communications technologies, and working at home. The book concludes with a section on the relationships between marketers and consumers.

Author : Jacob Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316487184
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Loop written by Jacob Ward and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds, and the real threat it poses to humanity: "The best book I have ever read about AI" (New York Times bestselling author Roger McNamee). Artificial intelligence is about to amplify the most primitive version of who we are, and spit it back at us for entertainment and profit. That's the warning from award-winning technology journalist Jacob Ward, whose decade-long journey through the cutting edge of AI and behavioral science reveals that we're on the verge of becoming caught in The Loop: a shrinking cycle of narrowed choices and lost skills that will turn us away from expertise, human connection, and creativity if we don't act fast. From biometric surveillance states that track the movements and relationships of over a billion people, to the algorithms that determine what movies get made, to the risky multiple-choice simplicity of automated battlefield systems, this book reveals that the most obvious patterns in our behavior--patterns that AI is most likely to vacuum up--are not the ones we want to perpetuate. As the tech industry begins writing flawed human habits into AI, The Loop is a call to look at ourselves more clearly, so we can put only the best parts of ourselves into the systems we create.