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Engineers for Change : Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Engineering StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (305 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262305181
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Engineers for ChangeDDC classification:
  • 303.48/3097309046
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Engineering Studies Series -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From System Builders to Servants of The System -- 3 Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Engineering Thought -- 4 The Crisis of Technology as a Crisis of Responsibility -- 5 The System and Its Discontents -- 6 Three Bridges to Creative Renewal -- 7 Making Socio-Technologists -- 8 Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
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Intro -- Engineering Studies Series -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From System Builders to Servants of The System -- 3 Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Engineering Thought -- 4 The Crisis of Technology as a Crisis of Responsibility -- 5 The System and Its Discontents -- 6 Three Bridges to Creative Renewal -- 7 Making Socio-Technologists -- 8 Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

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