1. One Hundred Seven Assumptions about the
Future; J. F. Coates, J. B. Mahaffie, and A. Hines from
Technology and the Future, Teich, ed. 8, –Handout
Can Technology Replace Social
Engineering?, Alvin Weinberg Teich ed. 9 ch. 3.
2. The Orient, Nature, and Technology from
Ferkiss Victor C., Nature, technology, and society,
cultural roots of the current environmental crisis. on
reserve
Background Meditations–Handout
3. Thinking about Technology: Teich, ed. 9, Intro
Part 1
Florman: Technology and the Tragic View :
Teich, , ed. 9 ch.
Robert Reich: The Two Great Forces of the
Future –Handout
Michael Ryan: Wondering What’s Next;
"Boston Globe Magazine"–Handout
Robert Pool, How Society Shapes Technology
Teich 9th ed. Ch. 2
09/11/01 http://www.wfs.org/mmsardar.htm
4. Shirley Jackson: The Lottery (on reserve)
Eric Harth: Perspectives, Blumenfeld,
97-106 (on reserve)
Martha Nussbaum: Can Patriotism be
Compassionate? –Handout
Rwanda: Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno1-3-01.htm#TopOfPage
Rochlin, Gene J., The Logistics of
Techno-War, Teich, ed. 9, ch. 26
5.Primo Levi, The
Sixth Day: Order on the Cheap"; Some Applications of the
Mimer on reserve.
Rod Serling A Thing
About Machines, from "More Stories
from the Twilight Zone" (New York Bantam Books,1961), on
reserve.
Frederick Lewis Allen: "The Big Change"; ch. 8,
The Automobile
revolution, on reserve
Merritt Roe Smith: Technology, Industrialization, and the Idea of Progress
in America: in
BlumenfeldTechnology as Progress
, pages 88-95. on reserve.
The
Automobile : Encyclopedia Britannica
on line, URL
Edward Tenner, Why
Things Bite Back 1997, Vintage Books;
ch 1, "Since Frankenstein.", on reserve
6. Henry Ford,
Encyclopedia Britannica
http://search.eb.com/eb/print?eu=117255
7.
Pesticides/Herbicides: Britannica on Line: Agriculture, History
of,
Pesticides as a Panace
http://www.eb.com:180/bol/topic?eu=108632&sctn=26&pm=1
Pesticides/Herbicides:
Rachel Carson, "Silent
Spring", The Obligation to Endure
, on reserve
Ozone Layer:
Encyclopedia Britannica on line:
Rowland Sherwood
http://search.eb.com/ebi/article?eu=337829&query=ozone%20layer
Nuclear
Energy
http://search.eb.com/ebi/article?eu=298177&query=nuclear%20energy
Computers: In
the Age of the Small Machine, Zuboff, Teich ed. 9, ch. 25;
Forester and Morrison, Computer Ethics,
Teich ed. 9, ch. 23;
The Pill: Encyclopedia Britannica on line:
Hormonal Contraceptives in "Birth Control"
http://search.eb.com/eb/print?eu=108650
The Green Revolution: Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture:
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1970/borlaug-lecture.html
The Green Revolution (Consequences):
UN Food and Agriculture Organization;
Vandana Shiva "Mistaken Miracle"
http://www.fao.org/docrep/V6640E/v6640e02.htm#mistaken miracles
Cellular Phones: see these and find more.
http://www.cguard.com/English/latests/Press/NYtimes/
8. Clones, Cloning, Genetic Engineering
What is "cloning", and what are the moral/ethical issues?
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/publications/links.html
http://search.eb.com/ebi/article?eu=295524&query=cloning
Kass and Callahan, Cloning’s Big Test. Ban Stand; New Republic, 08/06/
White House Statement on the Human Genome Project –Handout
R. Weinberg: The Dark Side of the Genome Teicn ed. 9, ch. 17
Kass: The Wisdom of Repugnance Teich ed. 9, ch. 20
Gibbs, Baby, It’s You! And You and You…Time Magazine, 02/19/01, pp.47-57
George W. Bush, Remarks … on Stem Cell Research Teich, ed. 9 ch. 18,
Jerome Groopman, Science Fiction: A comment on Leon Kass's Bioethics
9. Robert L. Heilbroner, What Has Posterity Ever Done for Me? in An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, 1975, W. W. Norton &Co. on reserve
Global Warming: http://search.eb.com/ebi/article?eu=335478&query=global%20warming
Global Warming II: Kyoto and other issues:
http://search.eb.com/search?ct=&query=kyoto+protocol&submit.x=9&submit.y=9
Greenhouse Effect:
http://search.eb.com/ebi/print?eu=296564
10. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Richard Sclove: Technological Politics As If Democracy Really Mattered, Teich ed. 9, ch. 9.
Nanotechnology: http://www.nanozine.com/WHATNANO.HTM
Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us , Teich, ed. 9 ch. 27
John Seely Brown and Paul Duduid, A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists, Teich, ed. 9 ch. 27.
J. F. Coates, J. B. Mahaffie, and A. Hines One Hundred Seven Assumptions about the Future.