The Resource Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams
Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams
Resource Information
The item Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life.Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of social and working life--from how students are taught to how research and accounting are done--at this major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights into contemporary society's obsession with technology.Today technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological and social innovation--a connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this absorbing book
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
- Contents
-
- 1. Living in a Technological World
- 2. The Expansive Disintegration of Engineering
- 3. Technology and Business
- 4. Technology and Community
- 5. Men and Women in a Technological World
- 6. Coda: Living in a Historical World
- Isbn
- 9780262232234
- Label
- Retooling : a historian confronts technological change
- Title
- Retooling
- Title remainder
- a historian confronts technological change
- Statement of responsibility
- Rosalind Williams
- Subject
-
- History
- MIT
- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
- SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects
- Electronic books
- Technological innovations -- United States -- History
- Technology
- Technology -- United States -- History
- United States
- Technological innovations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life.Rosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of social and working life--from how students are taught to how research and accounting are done--at this major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights into contemporary society's obsession with technology.Today technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological and social innovation--a connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this absorbing book
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Rosalind H
- Dewey number
- 303.48/3/0973
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- T173.8
- LC item number
- .W55 2002eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Technology
- Technological innovations
- SCIENCE
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
- Technological innovations
- Technology
- United States
- Label
- Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Living in a Technological World -- 2. The Expansive Disintegration of Engineering -- 3. Technology and Business -- 4. Technology and Community -- 5. Men and Women in a Technological World -- 6. Coda: Living in a Historical World
- Control code
- 51969568
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780262232234
- Lccn
- 2001060365
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9780262232234
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 5935
- 9780262286299
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)51969568
- Label
- Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Living in a Technological World -- 2. The Expansive Disintegration of Engineering -- 3. Technology and Business -- 4. Technology and Community -- 5. Men and Women in a Technological World -- 6. Coda: Living in a Historical World
- Control code
- 51969568
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 252 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780262232234
- Lccn
- 2001060365
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9780262232234
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 5935
- 9780262286299
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)51969568
Subject
- History
- MIT
- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
- SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects
- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects
- Electronic books
- Technological innovations -- United States -- History
- Technology
- Technology -- United States -- History
- United States
- Technological innovations
Genre
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Retooling--a-historian-confronts-technological/kWGSNnWUnUw/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Retooling--a-historian-confronts-technological/kWGSNnWUnUw/">Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Retooling--a-historian-confronts-technological/kWGSNnWUnUw/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/Retooling--a-historian-confronts-technological/kWGSNnWUnUw/">Retooling : a historian confronts technological change, Rosalind Williams</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
