Technology and Human Values

Final Connections: Technology and Change episode evoking discussion of the following issues: technological change and the social and psychological problems it poses; artifacts as networks enmeshing us and implicating the whole social fabric in our personal lives; production as a means of potentially anticipating technologygenerated social changes; social postures for controlling technology’s impact/influence on society. Chapter I in Florman, Existential Pleasures of Engineering, and in Kardestuncer, Social Consequences of Engineering. The engineer’s social role and public image. What does an engineer do and how does it get done? Distinguish between &dquo;engineering&dquo; and &dquo;technology,&dquo; latter a social pro-