From Marconi, Wright and Ford to the Thinkers and Creators of Today and Tomorrow: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines, Systems and the Human World
At the end of the 20th Century - has technology been a boon or a bane? How have men and women viewed technology and predicted its effects on the future, from the Edwardian Age to today? Despite the central influence of technology on life in this century, no one has ever collected together a fair sampling of the rich diversity of comment that technology has occasioned.
'Visions of Technology' presents an anthology of writings of different kinds and levels on technology and the ways in which it has formed this century, with contributions by business leaders, scientists, engineers, politicians, inventors, preachers, military men, public officials and ordinary people gifted with common sense.
