Title & Author:

Imagining tomorrow : history, technology, and the American future / edited by Joseph J. Corn.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1986]
©1986

Description:

vi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm (8vo)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The new light: x-rays and medical futurism / Nancy Knight -- Amateur operators and American broadcasting: shaping the future of radio / Susan J. Douglas -- Wasn't the future of nuclear engineering wonderful? / Steven L. Del Sesto -- Plastic, material of a thousand uses / Jeffrey L. Meikle -- Utopia realized: the world's fairs of the 1930s / Folke T. Kihlstedt -- The technological utopians / Howard P. Segal -- The home of tomorrow, 1927-1945 / Brian Horrigan -- Skycraper utopias: visionary urbanism in the 1920s / Clark Willis -- An unforeseen revolution: computers and expectations, 1935-1985 / Paul Ceruzzi -- Dazzling the multitude: imagining the electric light as a communications medium / Carolyn Marvin -- Epilogue / Joseph J. Corn.
Catalogue of the James J. Kopp Collection, 424
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Summary:

Imagining Tomorrow takes a lively and informative look at the future as envisioned in the American past. Covering the period from the 1880s to the present, it examines the expectations that various groups of Americans held regarding the technology of tomorrow. The book contributes to our understanding of twentieth-century culture, technology and what may be called the history of the future. Six of the ten essays in the book probe the future imagined for particular inventions, such as the electric light, x-ray, radio, and computer. Two others explore the way architects and designers repackaged the traditional house and city into exciting and evocative images of the future. The remaining two essays focus respectively on the novels of 19th-century technological utopians and 1930s world's fairs, both popular forums for speculating about technology and the future. Joseph J. Corn, a Lecturer in the Program on Values, Technology, Science, and Society at Stanford University, served as general editor for the volume and provides an overall historical perspective in an introduction and epilogue.

ISBN:

0262031159
9780262031158
0262530767 (pbk.)
9780262530767 (pbk.)

Subject:

Technology.
Technologie.
Futurologie.
Techniek.
sociologie
sociology
technologie
technology
vs
usa
toekomst
future
wetenschap
science
Science and Society
Wetenschap en samenleving

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Corn, Joseph J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 12343
Call No.: ID:87-B3319
Status: Available