Engineers for change : competing visions of technology in 1960s America / Matthew Wisnioski.
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.