Technology and human productivity : challenges for the future

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Technology and human productivity : challenges for the future

edited by John W. Murphy and John T. Pardeck

Quorum Books, 1986

  • : lib. bdg

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"Result of the proceedings of the conference titled 'Technology and human productivity: myth or reality', held at Arkansas State University, April 12-13, 1985"--Foreword

Bibliography: p. [225]-228

Includes index

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The editors have assembled a collection of original essays offering a holistic view of how technology shapes the modern world. Consideration is given to several major issues, such as the dehumanizing effects of technology, which tends to objectify social life; the emphasis on productivity and the accumulation of material goods; and the intricacies involved in creating a responsible technology that would establish more socially sensitive principles, values, and beliefs. Technology is examined not simply as machinery, but as a procedure that can be used to define every aspect of social existence, and the book demonstrates how to bring about the changes that are necessary to remedy this alienating situation.

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