This collection explores how technologies become forms of power,
how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how
the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems
strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power. The
authors suggest ways in which a more nuanced investigation of
technology's complex history can enrich our understanding of the
changing meanings of modernity. They consider the relationship
among the state, expertise, and authority; the construction of
national identity; changes in the structure and distribution of
labor; political ideology and industrial development; and political
practices during the Cold War. The essays show how insight into the
technological aspects of such broad processes can help synthesize
material and cultural methods of inquiry and how reframing
technology's past in broader historical terms can suggest new
directions for science and technology studies.The essays were
written in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes,
whose spirit of inquiry they seek to continue.Contributors Janet
Abbate, Michael Thad Allen, W. Bernard Carlson, Gabrielle Hecht,
Erik P. Rau, Eric Schatzberg, Amy Slaton, John Staudenmaier, Edmund
N. Todd, Hans Weinberger.
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