Technology and Society by Ede, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Half title Title page Imprints page Contents Maps Figures Tables Preface 1 Introduction: Thinking about Technology

Technology: A Definition The Concept of Invention Progressivism and Presentism Technology in Society versus Technological Determinism Other Views of Technology: A House to Live in or a New World? Other Voices Conditions for Technological Change

Competition A Cultural Attitude Favorable to Novelty Social Flexibility

Winners and Losers Technology Traps The “Dollar Auction” and the Price of Winning The Tragedy of the Commons Technology, Networks and Communication A Final Word Note Further Reading

2 Technology and Our Ancient Ancestors

Archeological Eras Culture Revealed by Artifacts Fire Self-Portrait or Talisman The Upper Paleolithic Revolution Art Ötzi and Evidence about Neolithic Life Hunting Pottery Further Reading

3 Origins of Civilizations

Agriculture and War Sacred Places From Settlement to Empire Notes Further Reading

4 The Eastern Age

Introduction China and East Asia Horse Power Metallurgy and New Tools Waterwheels Chinese Bureaucracy and Paper Gunpowder Invisible Technology in China Trade and Exploration The Lessons of Chinese Technology Note Further Reading

5 The Mediterranean World to the Islamic Renaissance

Introduction The Mediterranean World to the Islamic Renaissance A Note on the Lives of Famous Inventors Rome Roads: The Communication Network that Made an Empire Possible Aqueducts Architecture Industrial Management The Roman Army: The Military as a Machine The Fall of the Roman Empire The Rise of Islam The Islamic Agrarian Revolution Further Reading

6 The European Agrarian Revolution and the Proto-Industrial Revolutions

The Cistercian Order: Industry and Religion The Black Death Movable Type Printing Crossing the Atlantic The “Putting-Out” System and the Origins of the Proto-Industrial Revolution Slavery Population Change in the Proto-Industrial Period Notes Further Reading

7 The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of European Power

Banking and Patents Textiles Richard Arkwright: Invention and Social Mobility The Growing Textile Industry The Automation of Weaving The Luddites Reformers The Factory System Josiah Wedgwood: Beyond the Factory Steam Power Steam Transport Steam Locomotives Steel The Corporation The Great Exhibition of 1851 Energy and Chemistry The Meaning of the Industrial Revolution Notes Further Reading

8 The Atlantic Era

Cotton in America Transportation The Clash of Technology The American Civil War: New Technologies of Destruction Total War Interchangeable Parts Photography The New Europe Time and Place in the New Industrial Age Engineers as the Agents of Invention Technology and the Path to the Great War Electricity Telegraphy Commercial Electricity Ford and the New Factory System Petroleum World Arms Races and the Nature of Industrialized War Dreadnoughts Submarines and Sonar Machine Guns Chemical Warfare Tanks Aviation The World after the War Note Further Reading

9 Domestic Technology: Bringing New Technology to the People

The Green Revolution Fireplaces and Cooking Cooking with Electricity Microwave Ovens: Serendipity and the Expectation of Inventors Refrigeration The Sewing Machine Architecture: A Machine for Living In Skyscrapers Cities and Cars Mass-Produced Houses The Suburbs: Between Techno-Dreams and Isolation The Paradox of Domestic Technology The Meaning of Domestic Technology Notes Further Reading

10 The Second Industrial Revolution and Globalization

Labor Mass Education The Desire for the Future Making Records in the Air: Lindbergh and the Promotion of Technology The Slide into War Weapons of War

Codes Aircraft Radar Rockets Nuclear Weapons

Notes Further Reading

11 The Digital Age

The Origins of Digital Devices Computers I: Origins in the Electromechanical Age Telephone I: The Electric Voice Controlling Electricity Telephone II: The Electronic Age Radio Television Computer II: From Electromechanical to Tubes Solid-State Electronics Telephone III: Combining Radio and Telephone Transportation Robots Computers III: Solid-State and Personal The Internet Energy: Networks of Power and Dependence Nuclear Power: Promises and Problems Our Battery-Driven World The Integration of Everything Notes Further Reading

12 Conclusion: Technological Challenges

Importing Technology Bhopal: Necessity and Disaster Space as the New Frontier Humans as Technology Nano-world Printing the Future The Internet of Things: Harbinger of the Golden Age of Humanity? Artificial Intelligence: Technology beyond Human Control? Considerations of Benefit and Loss Further Reading

Bibliography Index