{"product_id":"retooling-rosalind-williams-9780262731638","title":"Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change","description":"\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosalind Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262731630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262731638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.97h x 5.40w x 0.60d","brand":"Rosalind Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119493804287,"sku":"9780262731638","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_553cc52f-f20a-489d-890b-3b04fcfbb9f5.jpg?v=1687409634","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/retooling-rosalind-williams-9780262731638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}