{"product_id":"retooling-a-historian-confronts-technological-change-9780262731638","title":"Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rosalind Williams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, a cultural historian who has served in the administration of MIT, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosalind Williams served as Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT from 1995 through 2000. From this vantage point, she watched a wave of changes, some planned and some unexpected, transform many aspects of social and working life--from how students are taught to how research and accounting are done--at this major site of technological innovation. In Retooling, she uses this local knowledge to draw more general insights into contemporary society's obsession with technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday technology-driven change defines human desires, anxieties, memories, imagination, and experiences of time and space in unprecedented ways. But technology, and specifically information technology, does not simply influence culture and society; it is itself inherently cultural and social. If there is to be any reconciliation between technological change and community, Williams argues, it will come from connecting technological and social innovation--a connection demonstrated in the history that unfolds in this absorbing book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46897091182743,"sku":"9780262731638","price":3488.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262731638.webp?v=1770361078","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/retooling-a-historian-confronts-technological-change-9780262731638","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}