"Determinism. How romantic to think the mind a machine reliable enough to transform the same causes over and over again into the same effects. When even toasters fail!"
- James Richardson, from Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays
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Written by Kevin Arthur in San Jose, CA. Contents copyright 2005-2009.
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Recommended Reading
John De Graaf: Affluenza : The All-Consuming Epidemic (2nd Edition)
Steven E. Jones: Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism
Sherry Turkle: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Naomi S. Baron: Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World
Neil Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Bill Wasik: And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture
Richard C. Lewontin: Biology As Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry
Paulina Borsook: Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech
[+Website]Steve Talbott: Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines
Maggie Jackson: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Bob Seidensticker: Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change
[+Website]Pete Shanks: Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed
Thomas P. Hughes: Human-Built World : How to Think about Technology and Culture
Carl Honore: In Praise of Slowness : Challenging the Cult of Speed
[+Website]Richard Louv: Last Child in the Woods : Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Sherry Turkle: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Robert O'Harrow: No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society
[+Website]Charles Perrow: Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Hubert Dreyfus: On the Internet, Second Edition (Thinking in Action)
Francis Fukuyama: Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
David M. Levy: Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
Neil Postman: Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Andrew Keen: The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture
Todd Oppenheimer: The Flickering Mind : Saving Education from the False Promise of Technology
[+Website]Harry Collins: The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology
Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
David Edgerton: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
Langdon Winner: The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
Sven Birkerts (ed.): Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse
Edward Tenner: Why Things Bite Back : Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
Sites
- Al Teich's Technology & the Future Toolkit
- Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Bill McKibben - Home Page
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Center for Food Safety
- Center for Genetics and Society
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Computer TakeBack Campaign
- Consumer Project on Technology
- CorpWatch
- Council for Responsible Genetics
- David Suzuki Foundation
- E. F. Schumacher Society
- Earth 911: recycling centers, water pollution and conservation, Earth Day
- Edward Tenner
- ETC Group
- Genethics.ca - Genetics and Ethics page
- GreenMyApple
- Heidegger and Technology Links
- IASTS.org
- INSN - International Nanotechnology and Society Network
- International Center for Technology Assessment
- IORG - Information Overload Research Group
- James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization
- Living knowledge - The international Science Shop Network
- Luddism Index (Sniggle.net)
- Martin Ryder's Luddism Resources
- Muckraker: The Center for Investigative Reporting
- Nature Institute
- Ned Blog (defunct, 2003)
- Neil Postman Information Page (Joshua Sowin)
- Neil Postman Online (Christopher Blosser)
- NetFuture newsletter
- New American Dream
- New Atlantis
- NRDC: Natural Resources Defense Council
- Paulina Borsook (articles)
- People for Internet Responsibility
- Philosophy of Technology
- Practical Action - formerly ITDG - Intermediate Technology Development Group
- President's Council on Bioethics
- Primitivism
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- Redefining Progress
- Scientists for Global Responsibility
- Shutdown Day
- Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
- Simple Living Network
- SlowDownNow.Org
- Society for Social Studies of Science
- Society for the History of Technology
- SourceWatch
- Stanford Center for Internet and Society
- Steve Fuller
- Steve Talbott
- STS Wiki
- Take Back Your Time
- Tech Nation
- Technopolis (Langdon Winner)
- Technorealism
- Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
- Union of Concerned Scientists
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