http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#technology-and-society Technology as a cause of social change. Social factors affecting <a href="technological-change.html">technological change</a>. Attitudes of non-technologists to technologies and technologists. Attitudes of technologists to the rest of their society. Control of technological processes. Official technology policies. University-industrial complexes. <ul>To Read: <li>Adas, <cite>Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance</cite> <li>Wiebe E. Bijke, <cite>Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs</cite> <li>B. J. Fogg, <cite>Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do</cite> <li>David Hess, <Cite>Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-58272-4">blurb</a>] <li>Hughes, <cite>Rescuing Prometheus</cite> <li>Stephen B. Johnson, <cite>The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs</cite> [How NASA and co. developed "bureaucracies for innovation." <a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/s02/s02jose.htm">Blurb</a>] <li>John Landels, <cite>Engineering in the Ancient World</cite> [<a href="http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu/books/pages/1412.html">Blurb</a>] <li>J. S. Lansing, <cite>Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali</cite> [<a href=""http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/4831.html>Blurb</a>] <li>Pool, <cite>Beyond Engineering</cite> <li>Edward Tenner, <cite>Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity</cite> <li>Edward Wenk, Jr., <cite>Making Waves: Engineering, Politics, and the Social Management of Technology</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s95/wenk.html">Blurbs</a>] </ul>