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Description edit
Ethical and Social Issues in Technology. Written from a Christian point of view.
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Dorcas: a New Testament era figure who is innocent of modern history or technology
- Ellen Westlake: a modern feminist skeptic, law student, and socialist
- Nellie Hacker: a computing student with an impatient desire for truth
- Johanna Lud: a sensitive sculptor and poet whose secret passion it is to smash all machines
- Alicia: whose real identity is hidden behind a microphone and speaker until later in the book
First Sentence edit
Students often think of history as a simple listing of events, names and dates.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
Index
Part I--Laying the Groundwork
Chapter 1 History and Technology
Chapter 2 The Foundations of Science and Technology
Chapter 3 Basic Concepts in the Theory of Ethics
Part II--Four Wavefronts on a Sea of Change
Chapter 4 The Information Revolution
Chapter 5 Robotics and The Second Industrial Revolution
Chapter 6 The Intelligence Revolution
Chapter 7 The Biospace Revolution
Part III--Ethics and the Institutions of the Fourth Civilization
Chapter 8 Technology and Economic Institutions
Chapter 9 Technology, the State, and the Law
Chapter 10 A New Education for a New Civilization?
Chapter 11 Religion and the Transcendental in the Fourth Civilization
Part IV Quo Vadis--Directions for People, Society and Technology
Chapter 12 Integration And the Fourth Civilization
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