Technology -- Social aspects

Here are entered works on the impact of technology on modern society. Works on the role of technology in the history and development of civilization are entered under Technology and civilization.

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• Technology
• Science -- Social aspects
• Social aspects

• Technology -- Social aspects -- Austria
• Technology -- Social aspects -- California
• Technology -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
• Technology -- Social aspects -- History
• Technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
• Technology -- Social aspects -- United States
• Engineering -- Social aspects
• Information technology -- Social aspects
• Medical technology -- Social aspects

• Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), by Brian Martin (PDF with rotated pages and commentary in Australia)
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
• Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (2008), by Cory Doctorow, contrib. by John P. Barlow (PDF with commentary at craphound.com)
• Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century (2011), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Tara McPherson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)
• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (webbed edition, 2008), by David D. Friedman (HTML at daviddfriedman.com)
• Grunch of Giants, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML with commentary at bfi.org)
• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)
• Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Anna Everett (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Marvels of Modern Science (1910), by Paul Severing, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Technology for Humanitarian Action (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Health and Coooperation, in cooperation with Stevens Institute of Technology, 2005), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Austria 2005: Projected Sociocultural Effects of the Microelectronic Revolution (c1983), by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• Austria 2005: Projected Sociocultural Effects of the Microelectronic Revolution (c1983), by Robert B. Textor (PDF at Stanford)

• Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), by Douglas Rushkoff (HTML and zipped Word at rushkoff.com)

• The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Tamara Siroone Ketabgian (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Processed World (full serial archives)

• Headline News, Science Views, ed. by David Jarmul (page images at NAP)
• Headline News, Science Views II, ed. by David Jarmul (page images at NAP)
• The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future, by Theodore John Kaczynski (HTML at emf.net)

• Support Organizations for the Engineering Community, by National Research Council Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer (page images at NAP)

• Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society (2003), by Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

• Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)
• The Information Age: An Anthology on Its Impact and Consequences (1997), ed. by David S. Alberts and Daniel S. Papp (HTML at gpo.gov)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)

• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Life Without Disease: The Pursuit of Medical Utopia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William B. Schwartz (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology, by Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development (HTML and PDF at NAP)
• The Next Hundred Years: The Unfinished Business of Science (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, c1936), by C. C. Furnas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, by Eugene Garfield (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Globalization of Technology: International Perspectives, ed. by Janet H. Muroyama and H. Guyford Stever (page images at NAP)

• Free: The Future of a Radical Price (read by the author in its entirety; 2009), by Chris Anderson (zipped audio files at Wired; 280 MB)

• A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for W. Owen, 1763-1764)
  • Volume I (A-C): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (D-K): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (L-Q): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (R-Z): multiple formats at Google

• Changing the Cogs: Activists and the Politics of Technology (Canberra: Friends of the Earth, 1979), by Brian Martin (PDF with rotated pages and commentary in Australia)

• Makers (2009), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)

• Changing Values, Changing Technologies: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II, ed. by Helen Lauer (HTML at crvp.org)

• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• Technology for Nonviolent Struggle (London: War Resisters' International, 2001), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• The Electrical Experimenter (most issues from May 1917 to June 1919), ed. by Hugo Gernsback (partial serial archives)
• The Manufacturer and Builder (partial serial archives)
• Popular Mechanics (partial serial archives)
• Popular Science (partial serial archives)
• Scientific American (partial serial archives)
• Scientific American Supplement (partial serial archives)

• Changing Values, Changing Technologies: Ghanaian Philosophical Studies, II, ed. by Helen Lauer (HTML at crvp.org)
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML with commentary at bfi.org)

• Technology, Trust, and Religion: Roles of Religions in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life (c2009), ed. by Willem B. Drees (PDF in the Netherlands)

• Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), by Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• From Analysis to Action: Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology, by Center for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education (page images at NAP)

• Careers in Science and Technology: An International Perspective, by National Research Council Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel and National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.