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.