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1. Technical Fouls: Democratic Dilemma and Technological Change
2. TechTV's Catalog of Tomorrow (TechTV)
3. Disappearing Through The Skylight: Culture And Technology In The Twentieth Century
4. Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes
5. Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies
6. The New Socio Tech: Graffiti on the Long Wall (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
7. Class Warfare in the Information Age
8. Magic, Culture and the New Economy
9. Information Systems and Global Diversity
10. Gender and Technology in the Making
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Technical Fouls: Democratic Dilemma and Technological Change
Authors: John Kurt Jacobsen. Paperback, 224 pagesPublisher: Westview Press Publication Date: 2000-07 Edition: 0 Reviews :
What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern the development and deployment of their scientific and technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy in democracies.The “social function of science” has been a contentious area of scholarly study throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Although the book focuses mainly on the United States, for the sake of instructive comparison, it also studies technological development of other societies, including the former Soviet Union and China. Some competing accounts of technical change across the borders include laissez faire, cultural, and neo-Marxist markets. In fact, with regard to laissez faire markets, even to inquire if science has a social function is to deviate from the appropriate images of economic development. What is always politically at stake is who will rule the next stage in production due to each swing in technology, which will, in turn, be associated with a new structure of control. Most recently, the microchip revolution and cyberspace are the most highly publicized candidates for the next upswing in technology—and thus the next new structure of control.The explanatory focus of the book is on ideology, or on ideas about how technology works and should work, and the three key areas of policy contention discussed are industrial development, military uses, and the environment. Students and scholars of science, technology, and sociology should find this book useful in coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the development of technology today. ...
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TechTV's Catalog of Tomorrow (TechTV)
Authors: Andrew Zolli. Paperback, 304 pagesPublisher: TechTV Publication Date: 2002-09-24 Reviews :
From medicine to the movies, from computers to the climate, change is everywhere around us, transforming the way we will live, work, play, and learn. We will likely experience as much change in the next three decades than we have in the two previous centuries. In such a world, how do we make sense of our future, and our place within it? TechTV's Catalog of Tomorrow offers an exciting glimpse at the new trends and technologies that will shape our lives, our society and our planet in the next 15-20 years. Nearly one hundred topics are showcased, in a clearly written and visually arresting style that provides an overview of current and future developments, with timelines, statistics, and pointers to online resources. Deeply researched and beautifully designed, TechTV's Catalog of Tomorrow is more than a book: it's a tool for thinking about the future. Numerous futurists, visionaries, and technology commentators have added their insights and visions of the future to the book, including: Paul Saffo, leading futurist and director of the Institute for the Future, Howard Rheingold, technology visionary and author, Craig Venter, co-decoder of the human genome, Jef Raskin, designer of the original Macintosh computer, Christine Peterson, expert on nanotechnology and president of the Foresight Institute, Nathan Shedroff, leading digital media designer, Stefano Marzano, CEO of Philips Design, Richard Garriott, legendary video game designer, Clement Bezold, president of Alternative Futures, Douglas Rushkoff, cultural critic, commentator, and author, William McDonough, architect and environmental champion, Alex Marshall, urban planning theorist, journalist, and author, Martin Siegel, professor of education and informatics at Indiana University, John Arquilla, leading military theorist on the future of war, Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor to the United Nations and World Bank and organizer of the Rio Earth Summit, Rory Stears, CEO of Freeplay, pioneers in human-powered devices, Frank Drake, astrophysicist and chairman of the SETI Institute This book is edited by Andrew Zolli, a futurist working at the intersection of technology, design, innovation, and futures research. This book encourages your participation in thinking about the future -- and in shaping your own. It is a book to ponder, argue with, revisit often, and use as a platform for your own speculation. It helps you stay connected to the coming changes in your world, and serves as a gateway to a world of infinite possibilities. The future is in your hands literally. TechTV is the cable television network for those excited by and curious about all things related to technology. By using technology as a backdrop to entertain, amaze, and engage viewers, TechTV is the lifestyle network that showcases how the latest trends, products, and events enhance our lives. Check your local television for TechTV. ...
TechTV's Catalog of Tomorrow provides moderately interesting browsing material, and will help clarify a few buzzwords if you've missed a few newspaper science pages during the past 10 years. Illustrated essays on genetic therapies, microscopic robots, virtual and augmented reality, and novel sources of energy fill this book. There's plenty of marketing material, too, covering everything from the Segway scooter to Boeing private jets. Some of it's exciting, some of it's old news, and some of it's just weird (like one remarkable picture of a guy wearing scuba gear while hanging by a sort of jockstrap inside a giant plastic bag filled with water). In any case, the information on products and technologies has to be taken on its own level (again, that of a newspaper's science page) and some readers may wish for coverage of the social and ethical ideas that will surely influence the future as much as any electric hat. Scanning this book--you don't really read it; it's too much like a magazine and has too many authorial voices for that--reminds you of looking at Wired magazine four or five years ago. So many technologies, so casually explained! So many people designated "futurists" and "visionaries" by fawning article writers! Sure, having a television screen built into your clothing seems like a hassle, but... maybe there's money to be made! That's the experience you'll find here. Nostalgia can be fun. --David Wall Topics covered: Problems (like global warming and overpopulation) and solutions (like telemedicine and environmentally benign energy generators) that look like they have a chance of affecting the course of mankind in the future....
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Disappearing Through The Skylight: Culture And Technology In The Twentieth Century
Authors: Jr. O. B. Hardison.
Hardcover, 389 pages
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1989-12-19
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Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes
Authors: Hardcover, 274 pagesPublisher: Springer Publication Date: 2008-08-05 Edition: 1 Reviews :
The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and invited contributions that cover important geographical and thematic issues not addressed at the meeting. In particular, there will be a balance between old agricultural regions (eg. Mediterranean, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Andes, Southern Africa, and upland Southeast Asia) and regions recently converted to agriculture, for example, the Brazilian Cerrado, the Yucatan Penninsula, and Bolivian Chapare. Systematic themes to be explored in this book include the impacts of trade liberalisation, the impacts of narcotics as crops, technological change, new regionally based agricultural organizations, migration impacts on agricultural land use, and agricultural intensification. ...
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Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies
Authors: Hardcover, 206 pagesPublisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. Publication Date: 2008-05 Reviews :
Agricultural systems and farmers in Africa are at the forefront of vulnerability to climate change and require concerted and focused policies and investment interventions. Yet, up until now there has been little, if any, comprehensive understanding of climate change vulnerability across Africa to guide effective policy formation and investment. This landmark book encompasses a comprehensive quantitative analysis and assessment of the extent of potential economic impacts of future climate change, and value of adaptation measures in Africa for different zones, regions, countries and farm types. Researchers developed and applied multipliable analytical methods and procedures to assess quantitatively how climate affects current agricultural systems in Africa, predict how these systems may be affected in the future by climate change under various global warming scenarios, and suggest what role adaptation could play. The analysis employs both the cross-sectional (Ricardian) method and crop response simulation modelling. Moreover, researchers developed and employed river-basin hydrology modelling to generate surface runoff and stream flow for all districts in the study countries. The research spanned eleven countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in West Africa; Egypt in North Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in East Africa and South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa. The study is the first to combine both country level and cross-country, spatially referenced household survey and climatic data for conducting this type of analysis, The book provides vital, much-needed knowledge about the impacts of climate change on Africa and serves as a guide to policy intervention strategies and investment in adaptation measures. It also makes a major contribution to knowledge about methods and approaches to analysing climate change impacts and developing adaptation strategies, especially in the highly vulnerable farming communities in the developing world. Published with CEEPA and the World Bank ...
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The New Socio Tech: Graffiti on the Long Wall (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)
Authors: Paperback, 256 pagesPublisher: Springer Publication Date: 2000-05-25 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Sociotechnical principles are now widely used around the world in both information systems and organisational design. First established in the 1940s to examine the effect of mechanised, mass-production systems on workers in the coal mining industry, they are now an important tool for ensuring that people and technology work together to optimal effect within an organisation. One of their main aims is the development of organisations where small groups work independently, handling sets of varied tasks, and managing their own activities. The main features of this book include: Practical experiences of applying sociotechnical approaches from around the world; Focus on future directions for the topic and modern applications of existing principles; Contributions from leading figures such as Enid Mumford; A Foreword by Frank Land....
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Class Warfare in the Information Age
Authors: Michael Perelman. Hardcover, 160 pagesPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date: 1998-03-15 Edition: 1st Reviews :
Mention of class struggle evokes images of a grimy age in which bygone captains of industry callously oppressed armies of overworked and underpaid proletarians. This dark portrait of class conflict stands in sharp contrast with the glorious promise of an information age. In Class Warfare in the Information Age, Michael Perelman shows how class conflict continues to remain a contemporary issue. He challenges the notion that, with the help of the modern computer and telecommunication technologies, we can look forward to life in a well-educated society in which anybody with even a modicum of intelligence and discipline can enjoy a more than comfortable existence. In a relatively jargon-free economic and political analysis, Perelman reveals how the efforts of business to profit from the sale of information will result in the reduction of access to information, rather than an increase. He demonstrates how the treatment of information as a commodity will cause it to be more regulated and less accessible. In the future, Perelman argues, it will still be a class-based privilege to access and afford information, and the rights of individuals will disintegrate as the power of the corporate sector grows. Class Warfare in an Information Age is a refreshingly critical work which forces readers to rethink the conventional hype surrounding the information superhighway.
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Magic, Culture and the New Economy
Authors: Paperback, 224 pagesPublisher: Berg Publishers Publication Date: 2006-12-12 Reviews :
This book looks at the 1990s, years of intense economic experimentation, when buzz words such as "network society," "the experience economy," "creative cities," and "glocalization" were everywhere. A fascinating perspective on "The New Economy" emerges as the authors explore the worlds of cool hunters, biotech brokers, career coaches, software entrepreneurs and event managers and tackle such questions as: how is magic used in the quest for newness and change; what happens when cultural techniques such as branding and styling colonize new arenas; what turns out to be just a flash-in-the-pan and what has a lasting impact? This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how economies operate in periods of rapid transformation. ...
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Information Systems and Global Diversity
Authors: Chrisanthi Avgerou. Kindle Edition, 280 pagesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 2002-04-11 Reviews :
It is often assumed that the impact and implementation of ICT's (Information and Communication Technologies) will or should be the same in all situations with little regard to the particular social or cultural context. Drawing on experience and research in different societies (Europe, Latin America, etc.), this book explains the nature of organizational diversity in which ICT innovation takes place, and also develops a conceptual approach to account for it. The book draws from institutionalist concepts of organizations, the sociology of technology, current debates on globalization and critiques of the rationality of modernity. The theoretical perspective is supported empirically by four international case studies. The author shows how the processes of ICT innovation and organizational change reflect local aspirations, concerns, and action, as well as the multiple institutional influences of globalization....
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Gender and Technology in the Making
Authors: Cynthia Cockburn. Susan Ormrod. Hardcover, 200 pagesPublisher: Sage Publications Ltd Publication Date: 1994-01-07 Reviews :
What relationship exists between gender and technology? Does technology contribute to the disadvantage of women? In this innovative, ground-breaking volume, the authors take as an example the microwave oven, a recent innovation in domestic technology that neatly encapsulates the technology/gender relationship. In the microwave, argue the authors, "masculine" engineering encounters an age-old "women's" technology-cooking. Cockburn and Ormrod show how the microwave begins as a state-of-the-art "masculine" technology, is translated in the retail trade into a "family" commodity (one of a range of domestic goods), and eventually settles into the kitchen alongside other humble "feminine" appliances. Demonstrating how technology relations work to the disadvantage of women, the authors build theory out of meticulous observation of lived relations--both comic and painful--between real men and women and the machines they make and sell, buy and use....
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