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Contents

 
IN PRAISE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
John Dewey, The Democratic Faith and Education
Vannevar Bush, Science: The Endless Frontier
J.B. Conant, Modern Science and Modern Man
Max Lemer, America as a Civilization
Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management
Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
SOUNDING THE ALARM
Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres The Education of Henry Adams Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres
Herbert J. Muller, The Children of Frankenstein
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Order
Lewis Mumford, Authoritarian and Democratic Technics
VISIONS OF A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Stephen Vincent Benet, By the Waters of Babylon
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings
SOME ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
James F. Childress, The Art of Technology Assessment
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Future, If Any
A.M. Turing, Can a Machine Think?