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• catalog abstract "The repeated failure of technology to fulfill its utopian promise has in recent years created disillusionment with the very idea of progress. Indeed, if technological optimism has characterized modernity, then technological pessimism may become the hallmark of the future. Nowhere has this crisis of faith been more evident than in the United States, where a series of disasters has challenged the long-standing belief that technological innovation necessarily leads to social improvement. Even the surge of renewed confidence in American technology spurred by the alleged efficacy of high-tech weapons systems during the 1991 Persian Gulf War has proved short-lived. In a series of case studies, Howard P. Segal reconsiders the American ideology of technological progress and its legacy for our contemporary high-tech world. He offers concrete examples - drawn from United States history, literature, and museums - of the role of technology in American life and the complex relationship between technological advances and social developments. In each instance, he finds technology neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but rather a mixed blessing.".
• catalog contributor b4807488.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction: The American Ideology of Technological Progress: Historical Perspectives -- pt. 1. Technology and American History Rethought. 2. The "Middle Landscape": A Critique, a Revision, and an Appreciation. 3. The Automobile and the Prospect of an American Technological Plateau. 4. Alexis de Tocqueville and the Dilemmas of Modernization -- pt. 2. Technological Museums Revisited. 5. The Machine Shop in American Society and Culture. 6. On Technological Museums: A Professor's Perspective. 7. Computers and Museums: Problems and Opportunities of Display and Interpretation -- pt. 3. Four Technological Visions Reexamined. 8. Edward Bellamy and Technology: Reconciling Centralization and Decentralization. 9. The First Feminist Technological Utopia: Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890). 10. Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia. 11. Lewis Mumford's Alternatives to the Megamachine: Critical Utopianism, Regionalism, and Decentralization.".
• catalog description "In a series of case studies, Howard P. Segal reconsiders the American ideology of technological progress and its legacy for our contemporary high-tech world. He offers concrete examples - drawn from United States history, literature, and museums - of the role of technology in American life and the complex relationship between technological advances and social developments. In each instance, he finds technology neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but rather a mixed blessing.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "The repeated failure of technology to fulfill its utopian promise has in recent years created disillusionment with the very idea of progress. Indeed, if technological optimism has characterized modernity, then technological pessimism may become the hallmark of the future. Nowhere has this crisis of faith been more evident than in the United States, where a series of disasters has challenged the long-standing belief that technological innovation necessarily leads to social improvement. Even the surge of renewed confidence in American technology spurred by the alleged efficacy of high-tech weapons systems during the 1991 Persian Gulf War has proved short-lived.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 245 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Future imperfect.".
• catalog identifier "0870238817 (cloth : alk. paper) :".
• catalog identifier "0870238825 (pbk. : alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Future imperfect.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
• catalog relation "Future imperfect.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "303.48/3 20".
• catalog subject "T21 .S43 1994".
• catalog subject "Technology Social aspects United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Technology United States History Case studies.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: The American Ideology of Technological Progress: Historical Perspectives -- pt. 1. Technology and American History Rethought. 2. The "Middle Landscape": A Critique, a Revision, and an Appreciation. 3. The Automobile and the Prospect of an American Technological Plateau. 4. Alexis de Tocqueville and the Dilemmas of Modernization -- pt. 2. Technological Museums Revisited. 5. The Machine Shop in American Society and Culture. 6. On Technological Museums: A Professor's Perspective. 7. Computers and Museums: Problems and Opportunities of Display and Interpretation -- pt. 3. Four Technological Visions Reexamined. 8. Edward Bellamy and Technology: Reconciling Centralization and Decentralization. 9. The First Feminist Technological Utopia: Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890). 10. Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia. 11. Lewis Mumford's Alternatives to the Megamachine: Critical Utopianism, Regionalism, and Decentralization.".
• catalog title "Future imperfect : the mixed blessings of technology in America / Howard P. Segal.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".