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• Headline News, Science Views II (1993), ed. by David Jarmul (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Headline News, Science Views (1991), ed. by David Jarmul (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future, by Theodore John Kaczynski (HTML at washingtonpost.com)
• Mandatory Passive Restraint Systems in Automobiles: Issues and Evidence (Technology and Handicapped People background paper #1; OTA-BP-H-15; Washington: GPO, 1982), by Kenneth E. Warner
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• Technology and structural unemployment : reemploying displaced adults. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment :, 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and the American economic transition : choices for the future : summary. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technological trends and national policy, including the social implications of new inventions. June 1937. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1937), by United States. National Resources Committee. Science Committee and William F. Ogburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technological trends and national policy, including the social implications of new inventions. June, 1937. (U.S. Govt. print. off., 1937), by United States. National Resources Committee. Science Committee and William F. Ogburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and handicapped people. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment :, 1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the National Science Board (National Science Board, National Science Foundation;, 1968), by National Science Board (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Assessment of technology for local development : summary. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and structural unemployment : reemploying displaced adults : summary. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and handicapped people : summary. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and handicapped people joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, September 29, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by Research United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science and United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and employment joint hearings before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Task Force on Education and Employment of the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, June 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, and 23, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by Research United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Education and Employment (page images at HathiTrust)
• High technology and its benefits for an aging population hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, May 22, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Location of high technology firms and regional economic development : a staff study (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1982), by Robert Premus and United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and employment : joint hearings before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology and the Task Force on Education and Employment of the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, June 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, and 23, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1984), by Research United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Education and Employment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and handicapped people : summary. (Congress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment :, 1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• High technology and its benefits for an aging population : hearing before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, May 22, 1984. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Older Americans and the Worldwide Web : the new wave of Internet users : forum before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, Washington, DC, July 16, 1998. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social and economic impacts of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant : a confirmatory technology assessment (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission : Available from GPO Sales Program, Division of Technical Information and Document Control, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1979., 1979), by E. Wenk, G. M. Zemansky, R. H. Watson, M. Glover, J. Douglass, P. L. Bereano, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the National Science Board (National Science Board, National Science Foundation :, 1969), by Biodiversity Heritage Library and National Science Board (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Support Organizations for the Engineering Community (1985), by National Research Council Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (HarperSanFrancisco, 1994), by Douglas Rushkoff (HTML at cyberpunk.ru)

• [Final report and recommendations] (The Board, 1994), by Illinois. New Technologies Board (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (2008), by Cory Doctorow, contrib. by John Perry Barlow (PDF 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)
• 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)
• Technology and Society: Interfaces with Industrial Arts (American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education Yearbook #29; Bloomington, IL: McKnight Pub. Co., 1980), ed. by Herbert A. Anderson and M. James Bensen (PDF at vt.edu)
• 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)
• Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (webbed edition, 2008), by David D. Friedman (HTML at daviddfriedman.com)
• Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2020), ed. by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press Direct)
• An Interpretive History of Industrial Arts: The Interrelationship of Society, Education, and Industrial Arts (American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education Yearbook #30; Bloomington, IL: McKnight Pub. Co., 1981), ed. by Richard Barella and Thomas Wright (PDF at vt.edu)
• Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Deep Lab (Pittsburgh: Deep Lab and the Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2014), by Addie Wagenknecht, Allison Burtch, Claire L. Evans, Denise Caruso, Harlo Holmes, Ingrid Burrington, Jillian C. York, Kate Crawford, Lindsay Howard, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Maddy Varner, Maral Pourkazemi, and Runa A. Sandvik (PDF with commentary at studioforcreativeinqury.org)
• Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), ed. by Anna Everett (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)
• Grunch of Giants, by R. Buckminster Fuller (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Civilization of Illiteracy (1997), by Mihai Nadin (Gutenberg text)
• The Age of Automation: Its Effects on Human Welfare (New York: League for Industrial Democracy, c1955), by Warner Bloomberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)
• Marvels of Modern Science (1910), by Paul Severing, ed. by Theodore Waters (Gutenberg text)
• Assessment for future national and international problems areas : prepared for National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., [Directorate for Scientific, Technological, and International Affairs, Division of Policy Research and Analysis] (The Foundation :, 1977), by Center for the Study of Social Policy and National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Policy Research and Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technology and human destiny (Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madres, 1983), by Henryk Skolimowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Embodying technesis : technology beyond writing (University of Michigan Press, 2000), by Mark Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Faithful Walter, and the incendiary. : Showing how divine Providence sometimes accomplishes great events through the medium of children. (Published by Edward Livermore. ;, 1849), by A. A. Gray, Edward Livermore, Mrs. Colman, and J. A. & U. P. James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public attitudes toward present and future technologies : satisfactions and apprehensions (Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California, 1974), by Todd R. La Porte and Daniel Metlay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Objectivity crisis : rethinking the role of science in society : chairman's report to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by Space United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tvorcheskai︠a︡ lichnostʹ i sreda v oblasti tekhnicheskikh izobreti︠e︡niĭ (Obrazovanie, 1911), by P. K. Engelʹmeĭer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Coping with the problems of a technological age : one of a series in expanded programs in consumer education (University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development, 1973), by Hillis K. Idleman and University of the State of New York. Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oak Ridge Bicentennial Lectures : technology and society (Energy Research and Development Administration : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1977), by Melvin Kransberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and United States. Energy Research and Development Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social and economic impacts of the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant : a confirmatory technology assessment (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission : Available from GPO Sales Program, Division of Technical Information and Document Control, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1979., 1979), by E. Wenk, G. M. Zemansky, R. H. Watson, M. Glover, J. Douglass, P. L. Bereano, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Respawn : gamers, hackers, and technogenic life (Durham : Duke University Press, 2018., 2018), by Colin Milburn and Duke University Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Technik : ihr Wesen und ihre Beziehungen zu anderen Lebensgebieten (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1922), by Robert Weyrauch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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