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Waves of enthusiasm for technological innovations that promise to revitalize teaching and learning are at least a century old. Unfortunately, the record of accomplishment for the many varieties of hardware and software introduced into schools over the decades is remarkably thin. Today's promoters of technology in education tend to forget similar ef...
The experience of students in Rensselaer's Product Design and Innovation (PDI) program offers a glimpse into how to integrate the humanities and social sciences (H&SS) into an engineering curriculum. PDI offers a dual degree program built around a studio design class each semester, integrated into a core-engineering curriculum leading to bachelor d...
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Along the history of the technological development in the United States, a belief has been identified about the relationship between the advance of technology and a type of political ideal, namely, the conviction that new technical devices will revitalize democratic society, increasing civic participation and its quality, by endowing citizens with...
This paper reports on a design education workshop held at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) in May 2001. Mudd Design Workshop III provided a forum for engineers, social scientists, designers, researchers, and educators to explore social and societal issues in and for engineering design education. Sessions were devoted to social and systems issues and theme...
Reports of President Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council stressed the unanimity of expert opinion approving the wiring of the nation's schools. Argues that labeling some approaches to technical practice as antitechnology or Luddism excludes important viewpoints from policy debates, allowing the juggernaut of ill-considere...
The theme of the paper is the tension between centralization and the need for standardization versus the need for locally developed organization and use of information technology. Unanticipated side effects have always existed in IT-based organization change. However, the trend towards integration, both within and across organizational boundaries,...
The paper discusses political aspects of networking technology in some areas of the health care sector, with emphasis on the relations between high-level standardization, medium-level organizational integration, and low-level work place conditions. We argue that the new complexity associated with networking may increase the danger of autonomous tec...
Contemporary philosophical discussions about technology mirror a profound distance between technical practice and moral thought. I consider the origins of this gap as reflected in both ancient and modern writings. The philosopher's version of technocracy ‐ rushing forward with the analysis of moral categories in the hope that policy‐makers or the p...
During the past 20 years a number of intellectual and social interests have found a home in Science and Technology Studies (STS). While some of these interests converge, there are also important conflicts. Often at stake in scholarly debates and academic programs of this kind is the reputation of science and technology. Hence, STS programs of the 1...
"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the present time."âDavid Dickson, New York Times Book Review "The Whale and the Reactor is the philosoph...
¿[With powerful personal computers] revolution, transformation and salvation are all to be carried out.¿
The social and organizational consequences of emerging from the use of computing technology are poorly understood. Forecasting the impacts of new computing technology is similarly not well understood. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that a growing array of computing arrangements are emerging that reinforce or stratify existing social arr...
Traducción de: The Whale and the Reactor Libro que previene sobre las consecuencias sociales y ecológicas del crecimiento sonámbulo de la tecnología en el que se juegan intereses económicos en medio de correlaciones de poder.
Traducción de: Autonomous technology : technics-out-of-control as a theme in political thought Incluye índice
