Wisnioski, Matthew.

Engineers for Change : Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (305 pages) - Engineering Studies . - Engineering Studies .

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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Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.
Technology -- United States -- Forecasting.


Electronic books.

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