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Technology 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

Author: Brian Campbell

E-mail: bcampbell@mta.ca

Homepage: http://www.sociologicalimagination.net/soci1001