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Автор: Wisnioski, Matthew H.
Название: Engineers for Change
Перевод названия: Инженерия перемен
ISBN: 9780262018265
Издательство: MIT Press
Классификация:

Этические проблемы и их обсуждение

Этические проблемы: научно-технические разработки

Воздействие науки и технологии на общество

Промежуточная технология

История инженерного дела и технологий производства

ISBN-10: 0262018268
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 12.10.2012
Серия: Engineering studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 27 figures
Размер: 168 x 237 x 19
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Competing visions of technology in 1960s america
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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 engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life.

The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technologys beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society--influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford--began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technologys critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature--and not from engineerings failures. Sociotechnologists were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

Engineers for Change, Wisnioski, Matthew H.