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Part I: THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY. 1. Does Improved Technology MeanProgress? Leo Marx. 2. How Society Shapes Technology, Robert Pool. 3. TheTechnology of Shoelaces, Edward Tenner. 4. Can Technology Replace SocialEngineering? Alvin M. Weinberg. 5. Technology and the Tragic View, Samuel C.Florman. 6. Do Artifacts Have Politics? Langdon Winner. 7. The Shock of theOld, David Edgerton. Part II: DEBATING TECHNOLOGY: 1960'S STYLE. 8. The Roleof Technology in Society, Emmanuel G. Mesthene. 9. Technology: The Opiate ofthe Intellectuals, John McDermott. Part III: DEBATING TECHNOLOGY: 21STCENTURY STYLE. 10. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, Bill Joy. 11. A Responseto Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists, John Seely Brown and PaulDuguid. 12. Promise and Peril, Ray Kurzweil. Part IV: TECHNOLOGICAL DILEMMASOF THE 21ST CENTURY. 13. The Science Behind Climate Change, William Collins,et al. 14. How to Protect Against and Prepare for Terrorist Attacks, The 9-11Commission. 15. Civil Liberties in a Time of Crisis, James X. Dempsey. 16.Stem Cell Research: The Great Moral Divide, Christopher Thomas Scott. 17. AndBaby Makes Three--or Four, or Five, or Six: Defining the Family After theGenetic Revolution, R. Alta Charo. 18. The Case Against Perfection, MichaelJ. Sandel. 19. Some Possible Legal and Social Implications of Advances inNeuroscience, Henry T. Greely. Part V: SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES ININFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY. 20. An Unforeseen Revolution:Computers and Expectations, 1935-1985, Paul Ceruzzi. 21. Why I Am Not Goingto Buy a Computer, Wendell Berry. 22. Computer Ethics, Deborah G. Johnson.23. The Internet Under Siege, Lawrence Lessig. 24. The Humpty Dumpty Problem,Mitchell Kapor. 25. Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob, Lee Siegel.Part VI: GOVERNING TECHNOLOGY. 26. Government and Technology, Albert H.Teich. 27. Governance Challenges of Technological Revolutions, FrancisFukuyama and Caroline Wagner.