| Preface | ix |
| Chapter 1 | Understanding Technology | 1 |
| Important Reasons to Understand Technology | 2 |
| The Task at Hand | 8 |
| Chapter 2 | Technology Examined: Definitions and Distinctions | 10 |
| Definitions: Confusion and Conflicts | 10 |
| Technology Defined | 18 |
| Chapter 3 | Is Technology Neutral? | 24 |
| The Supposed Neutrality of Technology | 26 |
| The Value-Ladenness of Technology | 31 |
| Conclusions | 34 |
| Chapter 4 | The Cultural Mandate and Modern Technology | 37 |
| Humankind as Formers of Culture | 37 |
| Four Lines in Human History | 44 |
| Technicism | 49 |
| Exiles in Babylon | 51 |
| Chapter 5 | A Guide to Responsible Technology | 58 |
| A Theory of Normativity | 59 |
| A Structure of Normative Principles | 68 |
| Chapter 6 | Technology and Science | 77 |
| The Science-Technology Relationship: The Conventional View | 78 |
| A Historical Perspective | 81 |
| Characteristics of Modern Technology | 95 |
| The Hegemony of Science in Technology | 98 |
| Chapter 7 | Technology and Economics | 103 |
| Two Views of Economic Activity | 105 |
| Economic Valuing | 110 |
| The Effects of Technology on Economic Relationships | 119 |
| Economics, Technological Choice, and Technological Change | 135 |
| Chapter 8 | Technology and the State | 143 |
| The State | 143 |
| Government and Technological Practices and Institutions | 148 |
| Barriers to a Proper Relationship | 153 |
| From Technicism to Biblically Based Normative Principles | 161 |
| Chapter 9 | A Design Philosophy | 164 |
| Technological Design: An Introduction | 165 |
| A Holistic Approach | 167 |
| Normative Principles for Design | 170 |
| Design Specifications | 177 |
| Sufficient Design | 182 |
| Chapter 10 | Design and Fabrication in Practice | 184 |
| Intrinsic Characteristics | 184 |
| Extrinsic Barriers to Sufficient Design | 191 |
| An Illustration of Responsible Design | 198 |
| Chapter 11 | Prophetic Witness to a Technicistic Society | 200 |
| The Nature of Prophetic Witness | 201 |
| Basic Themes of the Message | 209 |
| Activating the Conscience | 217 |
| Chapter 12 | Technology and Mutual Responsibility | 222 |
| The Nature of Responsibility | 22 |
| Strategies for Implementing Collective Responsibility | 227 |
| Position-specific Responsibility | 238 |
| Recommended Reading | 245 |
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