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Agel, Jerome – 1972
While sarcastically criticizing and exposing the contradictions in the American Dream, the author pursues a variety of contemporary topics of social and cultural interest. Today is already tomorrow, he concludes, and we had better be ready to face the new culture head-on. After the groundwork to that premise has been laid, the author questions a…
Descriptors: American Culture, Cultural Context, Cybernetics, Experimental Curriculum
Parkman, Ralph – 1967
An inter-disciplinary course entitled "Cybernation and Man," developed by the School of Engineering at San Jose State College, tries to evaluate the many problems posed to man by the expansion of his technology. It is contended in the course that the most effective approach to control of complex social phenomena within a technological…
Descriptors: Automation, Computers, Course Descriptions, Cybernetics

Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Center for Continuing Liberal Education. – 1969
In the first of four sections of this publication, James H. Stone reviews recent writings on the humanities, citing 299 books, essays, and articles. In the second section, Maxwell H. Goldberg provides definitions of several of the central terms related to technological change and human values (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Automation, Community Change, Cybernetics, Human Factors Engineering
Goldberg, Maxwell H., Ed. – 1969
In the first of four sections of this publication, James H. Stone reviews recent writings on the humanities, citing 299 books, essays, and articles. In the second section, Maxwell H. Goldberg provides definitions of several of the central terms related to technological change and human values (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Automation, Community Change, Cybernetics, Human Factors Engineering
Goldberg, Maxwell H., Ed. – 1969
In the first of four sections of this publication, James H. Stone reviews recent writings on the humanities, citing 299 books, essays, and articles. In the second section, Maxwell H. Goldberg provides definitions of several of the central terms related to technological change and human values (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Automation, Community Change, Cybernetics, Human Factors Engineering