Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry

by Albert Borgmann

  Wirth, Louis, 292n.42

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 180

  Wolin, Sheldon S., 263n.7

  Wood, Peter, 203

  Work: defined as labor in technology, 114–17; degraded to a mere means in technology, 114–20, 272n.2; and dignity, 118, 121–24; division of, 115–17; and education, 119–20; elimination of, through automation, 123–24; engagement in, 236–37, 239; improvement of, in technology, 122–24; pre-technological, 44–47, 114–15; at the leading edge and in the wake of technology, 115–16, 118; and the reform of technology, 227, 236–39, 241

  World citizenship, 126–28, 224–25

  Yanarella, Ernest J., 263n.3

  Yankelovich, Daniel, 254n.6 (Ch. 4), 269n.4, 270n.14, 271n.14, 277n.54, 289n.22, 290n.14

  Yergin, Daniel, 279n.18

  Young, John Richard, 287n.26

  Yudell, Robert J., 292n.43