Table of contentsTechnology and Social Change
Volti: Technology is Social
Great Individual Inventor/Entrepreneurs are Rare
Alexander and Mabel Bell
Incrementalism: The Typewriter
The Computer: Eniac
The Micro Computer: Altair
The Altair Doesn’t Type
The Computer Types: Apple I
The Computer Types: Osborne
Inventions and Demand
Inventions and Belated Demand
Inventions are not always useful
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Middle Class Housewife Work
New Household Technologies
The Decline of Servants
New Work
New Work Standards
Effects of Mechanization and Rationalization
Advertising as the Cause
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Author: Brian Campbell
E-mail: bcampbell@mta.ca
Homepage: http://www.sociologicalimagination.net/soci1001
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