Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political ThoughtThe truth of the matter is that our deficiency does not lie in the want of well-verified "facts." What we lack is our bearings. The contemporary experience of things technological has repeatedly confounded our vision, our expectations, and our capacity to make intelligent judgments. Categories, arguments, conclusions, and choices that would have been entirely obvious in earlier times are obvious no longer. Patterns of perceptive thinking that were entirely reliable in the past now lead us systematically astray. Many of our standard conceptions of technology reveal a disorientation that borders on dissociation from reality. And as long as we lack the ability to make our situation intelligible, all of the "data" in the world will make no difference. From the Introduction |
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Contents
Introduction | 2 |
Mastery and Its Loss | 18 |
Chapter 2 | 44 |
Technological Evolution | 57 |
Technological Determinism | 73 |
Uncertainty and Unintention | 88 |
Chapter 3 | 107 |
The Search for a New Ethic | 130 |
Master and Slave Revisited | 187 |
Transformation and Incorporation | 208 |
Reverse Adaptation | 226 |
The Technological Imperative and the State | 251 |
Chapter 7 | 279 |
The Loss of Agency in Technological Systems | 295 |
Technology as Legislation | 317 |
Notes | 336 |
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Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought Langdon Winner No preview available - 1978 |
Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought Langdon Winner No preview available - 1978 |
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