Title & Author:

Man-made futures : readings in society, technology and design / edited by Nigel Cross, David Elliott and Robin Roy at [i.e. for] the Open University.

Publication:

London : Hutchinson Educational, in association with the Open University Press, 1974.

Description:

365 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Produced as an integral part of an Open University second-level course, Man-made futures: design and technology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. Technology and society -- Technology and industrial society -- The industrial society / Raymond Aron -- Utopia and technology : reflections on the conquest of nature / Willial Leiss -- Technical dilemmas and social responses / Robin Clarke -- Technology change -- Futureshock / Alvin Toffler -- The imperatives of technology / John Kenneth Galbraith -- The myth of autonomous technology / Seymour Melman -- Technology and economic growth / Nathan Rosenberg -- Technocratic society -- The technocracy / Theodore Roszak -- Technology, planning and organization / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Freedom and tyranny in a technological society / Jack Douglas -- Technology and the failure of the political system / Victor Ferkiss -- Post-industrial society and the future / Notes on the post-industrial society / Danile Bell -- The structural presence of post-industrial society / E.L. Trist -- The triumph of technology -- 'can' implies 'ought' / Hasan Ozebekhan -- Inventing the future in spite of futurology / Krishan Kumar -- Section 2. Policy and participation -- Technology assessment and technological forecasting -- The management of technological progress / Harvey Brooks [and others] -- Technology assessment : superfix or superfixation? / Brian Wynee -- Technology assessment and political power / Tony Benn -- Technological forecasting as a tool of social strategy / Robert Jungk -- Participation and the professional -- Priorities for research and technological development / Helmut Krauch -- A rationale for participation / Peter Stringer -- Reaching decisions about technological projects with social consequences / Marvin Manheim -- Planning and protest / John Page -- The participatory democracy -- Inventions for democracy / Nigel Calder -- Toward liberation / Robert Goodman -- Neighbourhood councils / Stephen Bodington -- Section 3. Design and technology -- The design activity -- The unselfconscious process / Christopher Alexander -- Design in the light of the year 2000 / Donald Schon -- The need for new methods / J. Christopher Jones -- Wicked problems / Horst Rittel and Melvin M. Webber -- The technological fix -- Can technology replace social engineering? / Alvin M. Weinberg -- Technological shortcuts / Amitai Etzioni -- Systems of power / Robert Boguslaw -- Design responsibility -- Machines for a creative society / M.W. Thring -- Areas of attack for responsible design / Victor Papanek -- Technological alternatives -- Liberatory technology / Murray Bookchin -- Alternative technology / Robin Clarke -- Convivial technology / Ivan Illich.
ISBN 0-09-121231-6 Pbk , \2.75.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0091212308
9780091212308
0091212316
9780091212315

Subject:

Technology Social aspects.
Industrial design.
Design.
Technologie Aspect social.
design (discipline)
industrial design.
Design, Industrial
Technology

Added entries:

Cross, Nigel, 1942- editor.
Elliott, David, 1943- editor.
Roy, Robin, editor.
Open University.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269284
Call No.: BIB 201435
Status: Available