• how do our ideas about technology relate to power, money and prestige?
• how do changes in technology affect the working class?
• engineering and social justice
• ignoring social justice issues hurts the progress of technology
• when our technological system changes, what social change does it lead to? (or what social change is resisted)
  
• big changed in technological systems:
• invention of a new technology vs. innovation (all of the development and re-organization that needs to be done to bring that into use)
• government control vs. capitalism in technological innovation
  
• reasons for unfair treatment of workers;
• no one has figured out yet what is the best to organize work on this new technology because it is so new
• entrepreneurs who develop new technology are focused on wanting to make a lot of money quickly and so tend to underpay or mistreat workers
• Soviet Union government leaders often saw rapid industrial development as more important than treating workers better than in the capitalist system
• what prevents workers from pushing for better conditions? (eg. government repression, surplus of workers for low skilled jobs)

Write 3-4 doubled spaced pages on the following question, using the assigned readings (other sources are permitted but not encouraged).  Use MLA, APA, or Chicago for citations.

Question: using Hicks and two other books from the course, write about three examples of: What is the importance of the treatment of workers of all sorts in in the success or failure of completing a large practical project or bringing the technology into widespread use. (Your examples don't need to be brand new inventions.) Draw conclusions about why the bringing into use of new technologies often leads to unfair treatment of the people involved (for example workers).