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The web of human relations which originates, nurtures, and transforms technologies has long deserved attention. Computers, bicycles, natural gas pipelines, and condoms live and have their being in the midst of enormously complicated human networks of production, distribution, and evaluation. We need to know about the kinds of social institutions that do this work. This book, a report on a conference, goes far in opening this vast area for public inspection.
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