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Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-2265 ISBN 0-87023-881-7 (cloth); 882-5 (pbk.)
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Segal, Howard P. Future imperfect: the mixed blessings of technology in America / Howard P. Segal. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-881-7 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-882-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. TechnologyUnited StatesHistoryCase studies. 2. TechnologySocial aspects United StatesCase studies. I. Title. T21.S43 1994 303.48'3dc20 93-2265 CIP
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This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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For Deborah D. Rogers and for Richard William Rogers Segal
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
1 Introduction: The American Ideology of Technological Progress: Historical Perspectives
1
Part One. Technology and American History Rethought
11
2 The "Middle Landscape": A Critique, a Revision, and an Appreciation
13
3 The Automobile and the Prospect of an American Technological Plateau
27
4 Alexis de Tocqueville and the Dilemmas of Modernization
36
Part Two. Technological Museums revisited
49
5 The Machine Shop in American Society and Culture
51
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6 On Technological Museums: A Professor's Perspective
62
7 Computers and Museums: Problems and Opportunities of Display and Interpretation
73
Part Three. Four Technological Visions Reexamined
99
8 Edward Bellamy and Technology: Reconciling Centralization and Decentralization
101
9 The First Feminist Technological Utopia: Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890)
117
10 Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano: An Ambiguous Technological Dystopia
126
11 Lewis Mumford's Alternatives to the Megamachine: Critical Utopianism, Regionalism, and Decentralization
147
Part Four. High-tech Culture Reconsidered
161
12 High Tech and the Burden of History; Or, the Many Ironies of Contemporary Technological Optimism
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1994