Technology and Society: Classic and Contemporary Readings

Preface to the Second Edition

Phaedrus Plato

Politics Aristotle

Economy of Expenditures I and II Mo Tzu

Argument: The pre-eminence of Tao Chuang Tzu

City of God Augustine of Hippo

New Atlantis Francis Bacon

Wealth of Nations Adam Smith

Debate on the Frame-Work Bill, in the House of Lords, February 27, 1812 Lord Byron

The Philosophy of Manufactures, 1835 Andrew Ure

The Machine versus the Worker Karl Marx

Darwin among the Machines Samuel Butler

Works and Days Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lord Salisbury, on Electric Science Lord Salisbury

My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale Mark Twain

The Futurist Manifesto Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The Machine Stops E.M. Forster

The Instinct of Workmanship Thorstein Veblen

The Monastery and the Clock Lewis Mumford

Buddhist Economics E. F. Schumacher

Do Artifacts Have Politics? Langdon Winner

The Moral Significance of the Material Culture Albert Borgmann

Computers, Thinking, and Schools in the “New World Economic Order” Monty Neill

Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us Bill Joy

Promise and Peril: Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics in the 21st Century Ray Kurzweil

The Prolongation of Life Francis Fukuyama

From Women and Technology to Gendered Technoscience Judy Wajcman

Icarus 2.0: A Historian’s Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement Michael Bess

The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept Leo Marx

Are You Feeling Lonely? The Impact of Relationship Characteristics and Online Social Network Features on Loneliness Sabine Matook, Jeff Cummings and Hillol Bala

What Is This Thing? Richard Bilsker

The Strategic Role of Technology in a Good Society Philip Brey

Life Satisfaction: A Key to Managing Internet & Social Media Addiction Phil Longstreet and Stoney Brooks

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