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Informationen zum Autor Willem H. Vanderburg has taught preventive engineering, sociology, and environmental studies at the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Living in the Labyrinth of Technology argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by a pattern of re-creating human life in the image of technology unless society intervenes on human (as opposed to technical) terms. Zusammenfassung Living in the Labyrinth of Technology argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by a pattern of re-creating human life in the image of technology unless society intervenes on human (as opposed to technical) terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Where Are We Going with Technology? Part One: Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth and the Gods I Industrialization as 'People Changing Technolo&: Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth 1.1 Revisiting the Process of Industrialization 1.2 The Technology-Based Connectedness of Society 1.3 Living with Materials 1.4 Living with the Economy 1.5 Living Together Socially 1.6 Living Together Politically 1.7 Living with the Law 1.8 Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Earth 1.9 Some Implications 2 Industrialization as Technology Changing People': Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to the Gods 2.1 Symbolization and Cultural Moorings 2.2 Symbolization and the Life-Milieu 2.3 Culture as the Symbolic Basis for Individual Life 2.4 Culture as the Symbolic Basis for Collective Life 2.5 Industrialization as Cultural Unfolding 2.6 New Cultural Moorings 2.7 Religion, Morality, and Art 2.8 The First Generation of Industrial Societies 3 Living with New Moorings to the Earth and the Gods 3.1 Serving Technology 3.2 On Becoming Human Resources 3.3 Technology and the Human Journey 3.4 No Detached Observers Part Two: Disconnecting from and Reconnecting to Experience and Culture 4 People Changing Technology: Severing the Cultural Moorings of Traditional Technological Knowing and Doing 4.1 Transcending the Limits of Technological Traditions 4.2 The Destruction of Technological Traditions 4.3 Parallel Modes of Knowing 4.4 The Technological Knowledge of a Society 4.5 A Discontinuous Change in Technological Knowing and Doing 5 Scientific and Technological Knowledge in Human Life 5.1 Scientific Education and Culture 5.2 Contemporary Technological Doing Embedded in Culture 5.3 Contemporary Technological Knowing and Doing in Relation to Culture 6 Adapting to the New Technological Knowing and Doing 6.1 The Emergence of Universal Technology 6.2 Living with a New Economy 6.3 Living in a Mass Society 6.4 Living with a Limitless Politics 6.5 The Intellectual and Professional Division of Labour and the Poverty of Nations Part Three: Our Third Megaproject? 7 Technique and Culture 7.1 The Disenchantment of the World Revisited 7.2 The Invention of Universal Knowledge 7.3 Rationality and Industrialization 7.4 Logic, Artificial Intelligence, and Culture 7.5 On Creating a New Concept 8 Human Life Out of Context 8.1 The Technical Approach to Life 8.2 Sport 8.3 Education 8.4 War 8.5 Commercial and Political Advertising 8.6 Organization 8.7 Agriculture 8.8 Living with the Technical Approach to Life 9 From Experience to Information 9.1 The Roots of the Information Explosion 9.2 Homo Znformaticus and the Information Society 9.3 Technique and Industry 9.4 The Price to Be Paid 9.5 Living with I...
