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Enthält: MacKinnon, Rebecca: China's "networked authoritarianism". -S. 32-46 Qiang, Xiao: The battle for the Chinese internet. - S. 47-61 Morozov, Evgeny: Whiter internet control? - S. 62-74

Examines what the federal government is doing to make productive use of new technology; to constantly find ways to improve services to citizens, business, and governments; and to transform itself.

Flow of Soviet technology to the US in the form of Soviet licenses sold to US firms.

Insight into the relation between technology and society can be obtained by imagining that the world is organized differently and then determining how technology would be different. This approach is illustrated by discussion of three alternative worlds: one in which defense is carried out by nonviolent methods, one in which there is no intellectual property, and one in which workers control decisions about their work.

This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant feature of our civilization-in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology, the hopes and fears we express in the different narratives, the effect of those narratives upon us, and the new forms of myth those narratives represent. Narratives of Technology offers an approach grounded in the humanities, adding another perspective to that of social scientists and technologists