Titlebook: Politics and Technology; John Street Textbook 1992Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1992 democracy.politics.research.science.Tec

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Jogging

植物茂盛

Political Change and Technical Change, place: the labour-saving devices, the means of oppression, the cultural choices, the communication networks. Not everyone would think like this, but most would. It is, after all, the way our popular culture often works. In futuristic adverts, in science fiction films or novels, the world is evoked

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尊重

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称赞

Choosing Technologies,w we should judge technology and its effects. How do we make a coherent choice between technologies? How do we measure malign effects against benign ones? Is there a rational, democratic way of choosing technologies? These questions are the concern of the rest of this book. Our attention, therefore,

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承认

Democracy and Technology,attention was drawn to the fact that women could conceive children without sexual intercourse. There was nothing new about this possibility; indeed the technology had been available and applied for some time. But this was the first time ‘public opinion’ had found a voice. Captured in the rhetoric th