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Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 17
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HOWARD P. SEGAL, FOR THE EDITORS In November 1979 the Humanities
Department of the University of Michi gan's College of Engineering
sponsored a symposium on ''Technology and Pessimism. " The
symposium included scholars from a variety of fields and carefully
balanced critics and defenders of modern technology, broadly
defined. Although by this point it was hardly revolutionary to
suggest that technology was no longer automatically equated with
optimism and in turn with unceasing social advance, the idea of
linking technology so explicitly with pessimism was bound to
attract attention. Among others, John Noble Wilford, a New York
Times science and technology correspondent, not only covered the
symposium but also wrote about it at length in the Times the
following week. As Wilford observed, "Whatever their disagreements,
the participants agreed that a mood of pessimism is overtaking and
may have already displaced the old optimistic view of history as a
steady and cumulative expansion of human power, the idea of
inevitable progress born in the Scientific and Industrial Rev
olutions and dominant in the 19th century and for at least the
first half of this century. " Such pessimism, he continued, "is fed
by growing doubts about soci ety's ability to rein in the seemingly
runaway forces of technology, though the participants conceded that
in many instances technology was more the symbol than the substance
of the problem."
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