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Engineers for change [electronic resource] : competing visions of technology in 1960s America / Matthew Wisnioski.

Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978-
2012
T14.5 .W5664 2012eb
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Title
Engineers for change [electronic resource] : competing visions of technology in 1960s America / Matthew Wisnioski.
Author
Wisnioski, Matthew H., 1978-
ISBN
9780262305181 (electronic bk.)
9780262018265
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
T14.5 .W5664 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/3097309046
Summary
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Engineering studies series.
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Engineers for change.
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1. Introduction
2. From system builders to servants of the system
3. Technics-out-of-control as a theme in engineering thought
4. The crisis of technology as a crisis of responsibility
5. The system and its discontents
6. Three bridges to creative renewal
7. Making socio-technologists
8. Epilogue.

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