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Technical Fouls - Democracy And Technological Change (Paperback)
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Technical Fouls - Democracy And Technological Change (Paperback)
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What is it that shapes the direction of technological progress in
advanced industrial societies? Is it science? Technology itself? Or
is it something even more powerful and all-encompassing, like power
or money or politics? John Kurt Jacobsen addresses this topic by
investigating how contemporary democratic capitalist states govern
the development and deployment of their scientific and
technological resources. He examines the interaction of ideology,
profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology
policy in democracies.The "social function of science" has been a
contentious area of scholarly study throughout the second half of
the twentieth century. Although the book focuses mainly on the
United States, for the sake of instructive comparison, it also
studies technological development of other societies, including the
former Soviet Union and China. Some competing accounts of technical
change across the borders include laissez faire, cultural, and
neo-Marxist markets. In fact, with regard to laissez faire markets,
even to inquire if science has a social function is to deviate from
the appropriate images of economic development. What is always
politically at stake is who will rule the next stage in production
due to each swing in technology, which will, in turn, be associated
with a new structure of control. Most recently, the microchip
revolution and cyberspace are the most highly publicized candidates
for the next upswing in technology--and thus the next new structure
of control.The explanatory focus of the book is on ideology, or on
ideas about how technology works and should work, and the three key
areas of policy contention discussed are industrial development,
military uses, and the environment. Students and scholars of
science, technology, and sociology should find this book useful in
coming to terms with the fundamental questions underlying the
development of technology today.
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