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Title: Social Issues in Technology : A Format for Investigation
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0130206814
ISBN 13: 9780130206817
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 3rd Edition
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.18 pounds

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For courses covering Social Issues in Technology, Technology and Culture, Technological Anthropology, Technology and Ethics, or History of Technology, in technology, humanities, or social science departments.Finely-focused on the technology-society connection, this unique text presents the methods and theories available for exploring the effects of technology on our livespast, present, and future. It is designed as a primer to give investigators and students the necessary intellectual tools to begin their own research into the field.

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Finely-focused on the technology-society connection, this unique primer outlines the methods and theories available for exploring the effects of technology on our lives--past, present, and future. It is designed to give investigators the necessary intellectual tools to begin their own research into the field. The nature of technology; the process of developing technology; the critical link between creativity and innovation; economics and cultural impetus; the cause and effect of technology and society; modeling, simulations, and gaming; the universal laws of systems behavior; diversity, randomness, and systemic integrity; Catastrophe Theory; and the systemic models (General Categorical Model, the PERSIA Concept, and the Anthropological Model). For researchers interested in the technology-society connection.

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