LEADER 04396nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910827713103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-30426-0 010 $a1-283-70748-9 010 $a0-262-30518-6 024 8 $a40021587645 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276167 035 $a(EBL)3339533 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000780411 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11419565 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780411 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10785292 035 $a(PQKB)11105190 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339533 035 $a(OCoLC)961661440$z(OCoLC)815383294$z(OCoLC)962657670$z(OCoLC)966214594$z(OCoLC)988430787$z(OCoLC)992000618$z(OCoLC)1011079414$z(OCoLC)1037912244$z(OCoLC)1038692513$z(OCoLC)1045505832$z(OCoLC)1055333253$z(OCoLC)1065918047$z(OCoLC)1081215676 035 $a(OCoLC-P)961661440 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10617474 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL401998 035 $a(OCoLC)815383294 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276167 100 $a20120418d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEngineers for change $ecompeting visions of technology in 1960s America /$fMatthew Wisnioski 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 0 $aEngineering studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-01826-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEngineering Studies Series; Contents; Series Foreword; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 From System Builders to Servants of The System; 3 Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Engineering Thought; 4 The Crisis of Technology as a Crisis of Responsibility; 5 The System and Its Discontents; 6 Three Bridges to Creative Renewal; 7 Making Socio-Technologists; 8 Epilogue; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index 330 $aAn account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society--influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford--began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature--and not from engineering's failures. "Sociotechnologists" were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. 410 0$aEngineering Studies 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aTechnology$zUnited States$xForecasting 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects 615 0$aTechnology$xForecasting. 676 $a303.48/3097309046 700 $aWisnioski$b Matthew H.$f1978-$01681853 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827713103321 996 $aEngineers for change$94051551 997 $aUNINA