Lecture Notes from:

Society and Technological Change, Rudi Volti, 3rd edition, St. Martin's Press, 1995

The pages referenced below are notes compiled by Robert Keel and Shannon Mayer in their reading of Volti's, Society and Technological Change, 3rd ed., St. Martin's Press, 1995. They are intended for classroom use.

• Chapter 1: The Nature of Technology
• Chapter 2: Winners and Losers: The Differential Effects of Technological Change
• Chapter 3: The Sources of Technological Change
• Chapter 4: Scientific Knowledge and Technological Advance
• Chapter 5: The Diffusion of Technology
• Chapter 6: Technology, Energy, and the Environment
• Chapter 7: Medical and Biological Technologies
• Chapter 8: Work in Nonindustrial Societies
• Chapter 9: Technology and Jobs: More of One and Less of the Other?
• Chapter 10: Technological Change and Life on the Job
• Chapter 11: Printing
• Chapter 12: The Electronic Media
• Chapter 13: Weapons and Their Consequences
• Chapter 14: How New Weapons Emerge--And How They May be Contained
• Chapter 15: Technology and Its Creators: Who's in Charge of Whom?
• Chapter 16: Organizations and Technological Change
• Chapter 17: Government and the Control of Technology