@article{1386418,
      recid = {1386418},
      author = {Williams, Rosalind H.},
      title = {Retooling : a historian confronts technological change /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in  society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and  Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis  left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT,  he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession  that would bring untold good to his country but would also  contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book  written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a  cultural historian who has served in the administration of  MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make  sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in  contemporary life.Rosalind Williams served as Dean of  Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995  through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave  of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform  many aspects of social and working life--from how students  are taught to how research and accounting are done--at this  major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she  uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights  into contemporary society's obsession with technology.Today  technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties,  memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in  unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically  information technology, does not simply influence culture  and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social.  If there is to be any reconciliation between technological  change and community, Williams argues, it will come from  connecting technological and social innovation--a  connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this  absorbing book.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386418},
}