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This eye-opening book describes how modern technologies--such as computers, automobiles, machine tools, hybrid crops, nuclear reactors, and others--contribute to vexing social problems ranging from the continued subordination of women and workers to widespread political disengagement. Engineers, manufacturers, and policy makers rarely take these consequences into account. Contending that reinvigorated democratic politics can and should supersede conventional economic reasoning as a basis for decisions about technology, Richard Sclove clearly outlines how the general public can become actively involved in all phases of technology decision making, from assessment and policy making to research and development.
Winner-- American Political Science Association's Don K. Price Award
Winner-- American Political Science Association's Don K. Price Award
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Richard E. Sclove is Executive Director of The Loka Institute in Amherst, MA, and the founder of FASTnet (the Federation of Activists on Science & Technology Network). A recipient of a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, he is also a research fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies.
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I. THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF DEMOCRACY
1. Spanish Waters, Amish Farming: Two Parables of Modernity?
2. "I'd Hammer Out Freedom": Technology as Politics and Culture
3. "In Every Sense the Experts": Strong Democracy and Technology
II. DESIGN CRITERIA FOR DEMOCRATIC TECHNOLOGIES
4. "Actively Related to the Whole World": Technology and Democratic Community
5. "No Man Is Sacrificed to the Wants of Another": Democratic Work
6. Machineries of Power
7. "We Would Call It Treason": Technology and Self-Governance
8. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sustainability
III. TOWARDS A DEMOCRATIC POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY
9. "Things like That Is Priceless": Contestability and Dignity
10. Cheeseburgers, Deodorant, and the Basic Structure of Society: Democracy versus Economics-as Usual
11. "Everyone Contributes": Participation in Research, Development and Design
12. Technological Politics as if Democracy Mattered
13. "A New and Better Vision"
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