Celebrated technology historian Richard Rhodes offers this unique collection exploring technology's impact on modern life. Visions of Technology documents the era of technological advances, both good and bad, with essays ranging from Henry Ford's on the horseless carriage to Margaret Sanger's on birth control to Robert Oppenheimer's on science and war. These essays put 20th-century progress in perspective, revealing the potential, the contradictions and the consequences change brings. Rhodes frames the essays with provocative commentary and insightful annotations. The myriad innovators and thinkers include Isaac Asimov, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Glenn, Stanley Kubrick and Charles Lindbergh.
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