List of Authors Ix // Preface Xiii // Part I - Toward A Philosophy of Technology 1 // Introduction 1 // Robert E. Mcginn : What Is Technology? 10 // Alan R. Drengson : Four Philosophies of Technology 25 // Hans Jonas : Toward a Philosophy of Technology 40 // Jacques Ellul : The Technological Order 59 // Part II - Further Technological Metaphors 73 // Introduction 73 // D. O. Edge : Technological Metaphor and Social Control 79 // John J. Mcdermott : Glass Without Feet 89 // Richard Powers : The Cheap and Accessible Print 100 // Larry Hickman : Autonomous Technology in Fiction 109 // Part III - Technology as Embodiment 119 // Introduction 119 // Don Ihde : Technology and Human Self-Conception 125 // Maurice Merleau-Ponty : From Phenomenology of Perception 134 // Shoshana Zuboff : From in the Age of the Smart Machine 140 // John J. Mcdermott : The Aesthetic Drama of the Ordinary 150 // Part IV - The Phenomenology of Everyday Affairs 161 // Introduction 161 // Douglas Browning : Some Meanings of Automobiles 172 // Glen Jeansonne : The Automobile and American Morality 177 // Robert Linhart : From the Assembly Line 183 // George Gerbner : Television. The New State Religion? 192 // Edmund Carpenter : The New Languages 196 // Lewis Mumford : The Monastery and the Clock 208 // Daniel Boorstin : The Rise of the Equal Hour 212 // John J. Mcdermott : Urban Time 220 // Paul B. Thompson : Nuclear Weapons and Everyday Life 223 // Ruth Schwartz : Cowan Housework and Its Tools 237 // Part V - Patterns of Technological History 245 // Introduction 245 // José Ortega Gasset : From "Man The Technician" 254 // Lynn White, Jr. : The Act of Invention 264 // Lewis Mumford : From Technics and Civilization 276 // Paul Levinson : Toy, Mirror and Art: The Metamorphosis of Technological Culture 294 // Autumn Stanley : Women Hold Up Two-Thirds of The Sky: Notes for a Revised History of Technology 308 //
Part VI - Autonomous Technology 325 // Introduction 325 // Jacques Ellul : The Autonomy of Technology 333 // Jacques Ellul : The Present and the Future 343 // Herbert Marcuse : The New Forms of Control 357 // Arnold Pacey :From the Culture of Technology 368 // Part VII - Order and Change in Human Societies 387 // Introduction 387 // Langdon Winner : Techné and Politeia: The Technical Constitution of Society 399 // John Dewey : Science and Society 413 // W. H. Lowrance : The Relation of Science and Technology to Human Values 420 // Herbert I. Schiller : Paradoxes of the Information Age 436 // C. E. Ayres : The Path of Progress 450 // Jürgen Habermas : Technical Progress and the Social Life-World 460 // Godfrey Gunatilleke : The Ethics of Order and Change 468 // For Further Reading 490 // Acknowledgments 493