Global Technological Change
From Hard Technology to Soft Technology - Second Edition
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
366 pages
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7 x 9
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© 2011
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface to the English Edition by Theodore Gordon
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is Technology?
Chapter 2: Historical Antecedents of Soft Technology
Chapter 3: Soft Technology and Technological Competitiveness
Chapter 4: Soft Technology and Innovation
Chapter 5: Soft Industries
Chapter 6: Soft Technology and the Fourth Generation of Technology Foresight
Postscript: The Principles for Development in the Twenty-first Century—Harmony, Balance, and Coexistence
About the Author
Bibliography
Review Quotes
Hazel Henderson, US Office of Technology Assessment
“Jin’s new book, Global Technological Change, is a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the twenty-first century. As Jin correctly points out, in emerging knowledge societies, the ’soft’ technologies are drivers of the ’hard’ technologies. . . . This book is a major intellectual advance that can help clarify human choices for decades to come.”
Karamjit S. Gill, AI and Society: Journal of Human Centered Systems
“This volume indicates that the complex problems we are facing in the twenty-first century can only be solved by a balance between ‘yin-yang’ environment, between hard technology (machine-centered) and soft technology (human-centered). This concept is invaluable as it conveys a new perspective of the assumptions about the relationships between technological innovation, institutional innovations, and the gap between the developed and developing countries at the turn of the new millennium.”
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