An open access publication of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Winter 1980

Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity?

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Some Issues of Technology

A Symposium 


The Anatomy of Modern Technology: Prolegomenon to an Improved Public Policy for the Social Management of Technology

by N. Bruce Hannay and Robert E. McGinn
 


A Further Note on Visions

by Robert S. Morison
 


Technology, Evolution, and Purpose

by Harvey Brooks
 


Science and Technology

by W. O. Baker
 


The Creation of Knowledge and Technique: Today's Task and Yesterday's Experience

by David Landes
 


Do Artifacts Have Politics?

by Langdon Winner
 


Time and Decentralization

by Daniel T. Spreng and Alvin M. Weinberg
 


Arms Control as a Regulator of Military Technology

by Deborah Shapley
 


The Impact of Technology on Economic Growth in the 1980s 

by David K. Stout
 


On the Dimensions of the Technology Controversy

by Edward E. David Jr.
 


The Uncertain Relation

by Elting Morison


A Note on Engineering and the Other Professions

by Walter Rosenblith