Starting around 1900, technology became a lively subject for
debate among intellectuals, writers, and other opinion leaders. The
expansion of the machine into ever more areas of social and
economic life had led to a need to interpret its meanings in a more
comprehensive way than in the past. World War I and its aftermath
shifted the terms of this ongoing debate by underlining both the
potential dangers of technology and its centrality to modern
life.This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual
responses to technology in the first four decades of this century,
and suggests that these responses set the terms that continue to
govern contemporary debates. Focusing on the broader contexts
within which intellectual positions are formed, the book highlights
the ways in which attitudes toward technology were shaped in a wide
variety of national and organizational settings. A common theme is
that, in debating technology, people drew on their distinctive
national symbols and cultural traditions. By emphasizing the
interplay between debates on technology and the making of
modernity, the book challenges standard historical accounts of the
early twentieth century.Contributors: Ketil G. Andersen, Aant
Elzinga, Tor Halvorsen, Mikael Hard, Kjetil Jakobsen, Andrew
Jamison, Catharina Landstrom, Conny Mithander, Sissel Myklebust,
Dick van Lente, Peter Wagner."
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