Technology and society : building our sociotechnical future / edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Jameson M. Wetmore.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

VISIONS OF A TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE: "Technology and Social Justice" / Freeman J. Dyson -- "The Machine Stops" / E.M. Forster -- "The Prolongation of Life" / Francis Fukuyama -- "Reproductive Ectogenesis: The Third Era of Human Reproduction and Some Moral Consequences" / Stellan Welin -- "Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by Atom" / Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology -- "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" / Bill Joy -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: "Do Machines Make History?" / Robert L. Heilbroner -- "The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts" / Trevor Pinch and Wiebe Bijker -- "Technological Momentum" / Thomas P. Hughes -- "Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts" / Bruno Latour -- "Code Is Law" / Lawrence Lessig -- "The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology" / Patrick D. Hopkins -- TECHNOLOGY AND VALUES: "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" / Langdon Winner -- "Control: Human and Nonhuman Robots" / George Ritzer -- White / Richard Dyer -- "Manufacturing Gender in Commercial and Military Cockpit Design" / Rachel N. Weber -- "Pas de Trois: Science, Technology, and the Marketplace" / Daniel Sarewitz -- "Amish Technology: Reinforcing Values and Building Community" / Jameson M. Wetmore -- THE COMPLEX NATURE OF SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS: "Will Small Be Beautiful? Making Policies for Our Nanotech Future" / W. Patrick McCray -- "Sociotechnical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall" / Dominique Vinck -- "The Naked Launch: Assigning Blame for the Challenger Explosion" / Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch -- "Bodies, Machines, and Male Power" / M. Carme Alemany Gomez -- "Crash!: Nuclear Fuel Flasks and Anti-Misting Kerosene on Trial" / Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch -- "When Is a Work Around? Conflict and Negotiation in Computer Systems Development" / Neil Pollock -- TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CHALLENGES: "Shaping Technology for the 'Good Life': The Technological Imperative versus the Social Imperative" / Gary Chapman -- "The Feminization of Work in the Information Age" / Judy Wajcman -- "Nanotechnology and the Developing World" / Fabio Salamanca-Buentello, Deepa L. Persad, Erin B. Court, Douglas K. Martin, Abdallah S. Daar and Peter A. Singer -- "Nanotechnology and the Developing World: Will Nanotechnology Overcome Poverty or Widen Disparities?" / Noela Invernizzi and Guillermo Foladori -- "People's Science in Action: The Politics of Protest and Knowledge Brokering in India" / Roopali Phadke -- "Security Trade-Offs Are Subjective" and "Technology Creates Security Imbalances" / Bruce Schneier -- "Questioning Surveillance and Security" / Torin Monahan -- Energy, Society, and Environment: Technology for a Sustainable Future / David Elliott -- Introduction to Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy / Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette -- "Icarus 2.0: A Historian's Perspective on Human Biological Enhancement" / Michael Bess.

An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections of technology, society, and values and how these may affect the future.