An edition of Making waves (1995)

Making waves

engineering, politics, and the social management of technology

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An edition of Making waves (1995)

Making waves

engineering, politics, and the social management of technology

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As the first science adviser to Congress and as adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon, Edward Wenk has seen firsthand both the benefits and the dilemmas created by technology - and the urgent need to recognize the powerful consequences of technological choice. The future will find Americans more reliant on technology. But will they be less in control of how it affects their lives?

Wenk's years of closely watching the influence of technology on public policy and politics make his warnings profound. Exploring the potentially explosive convergence of politics and technology, with tough-minded analysis of examples from space exploration to the Exxon Valdez, Wenk issues a call for greater civic competence, as producers and consumers of technology, as investors, as potential victims, and as voters.

Otherwise, the very substance of democracy is at stake - as the politics of technology develops a powerful counterpart in the extraordinary influence of electronic media and computers, the technology of politics.

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English
Pages
269

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Making waves: engineering, politics, and the social management of technology
1995, University of Illinois Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-253) and index.

Published in
Urbana

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/3
Library of Congress
T14.5 .W45 1995, T14.5.W45 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 269 p. ;
Number of pages
269

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1096603M
Internet Archive
makingwavesengin0000wenk
ISBN 10
0252021495, 0252064488
LCCN
94021212
OCLC/WorldCat
30664523
Library Thing
2594882
Goodreads
1219019
4139621

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