Hephaestus--The God We Love to Hate: The Lingering Pro- and Anti-Technology Debate.

Berbekar, Rosalia

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ERIC Number: EJ386292

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Publication Date: 1988

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Hephaestus--The God We Love to Hate: The Lingering Pro- and Anti-Technology Debate.

Berbekar, Rosalia

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, v8 n2 p172-82 1988

Describes the nature of technology. Summarizes the claims of the anti-technologists, such as Marcuse and Ellul, and the moderate pro-technologists, such as Ferkiss, Mesthene, Brooks and Bowers, National Academy of Engineering, Norman, and Weizenbaum. Provides 79 references. (YP)

Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Attitudes, Futures (of Society), Humanities, Industrialization, Modernization, Quality of Life, Science and Society, Technological Advancement, Technological Literacy, Technology, Technology Transfer

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Audience: Teachers; Policymakers; Practitioners

Language: English

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