Advancements in science, technology, and engineering are
ubiquitously embraced across the globe. Their promises-more
material goods, longer and healthier lives, more convenience, and
more pleasure and less suffering-and their overall track record of
results have largely insulated them from critical evaluation. The
problems they cause are often depicted as flaws with a particular
technology in some context, and their resolutions are proposed as
better technologies or different deployments. This diagnosis is
accepted by most people, who, while bombarded with messages of the
salvific power of STEM, know little about what its practitioners do
or how most technologies work. This edited volume transcends the
mood of technological optimism and disciplinary captivity to
develop a critical, broad, and diverse understanding of how
science, technology, and engineering have transformed human
experiences, practices, and values, with an emphasis on ethics,
religion, and policy. The escalating intensity of these
transformations on more aspects of human existence-a trend
accelerated by responses to COVID-19-and growing recognition of the
severity and extent of their accompanying psychological, social,
cultural, and environmental consequences make this effort timely.
The chapters, many written by prominent intellectuals, draw on a
range of disciplinary and cultural resources and most will likely
be intellectually important and well-received individually. Taken
together, the book will provide an unsurpassed composite,
cross-disciplinary, and cross-cultural view of science, technology,
and engineering and the transformations they cause. The book
includes twenty-seven chapters by scholars from the United States,
Latin America, China, and Europe. The contributions use resources
from diverse disciplines and traditions to help readers to think
through the always changing sociotechnical milieu in which we live
and work.
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