Search Books

Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future

Publisher The MIT Press
📄 Viewing lite version Full site ›
🌎 Shop on Amazon — choose country
⌛ 🇫🇷 France pricing being fetched… Prices will appear once fetched — usually within a few minutes.
Share:
Book Details
PublisherThe MIT Press
ISBN / ASIN0262530767
ISBN-139780262530767
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

Description

The history of the future is the history of a society's imagination, and Imagining Tomorrow takes a lively and informative look at the future as envisioned in the American past. These ten original essays explore the impulse to peer into the future, particularly into the American dream of a technological utopia. Some of the technologies discussed are x-rays, radio, plastics, the electric light, and nuclear power (including Henry Ford's nuclear car).Joseph J. Corn is a lecturer in the Program on Values, Technology, Science, and Society at Stanford University.