Intelligence and Technology

Robert J. Sternberg, David D. Preiss

• Contents: Foreword. Preface. Part I: Cognitive Technologies in Historical and Cultural Evolution. R.S. Nickerson, Technology and Cognition Amplification. A.E. Maynard, K. Subrahmanyam, P.M. Greenfield, Technology and the Development of Intelligence: From the Loom to the Computer. D.R. Olson, Technology and Intelligence in a Literate Society. Part II: Cognitive Consequences of Educational Technologies. G. Salomon, D. Perkins, Do Technologies Make Us Smarter? Intellectual Amplification With, Of, and Through Technology. S.P. Lajoie, Cognitive Tools for the Mind: The Promises of Technology--Cognitive Amplifiers or Bionic Prosthetics? Part III: Technological Partnerships at Work. A. Kirlik, Work in Progress: Reinventing Intelligence for an Invented World. J-M. Hoc, Cooperation Between Human Cognition and Technology in Dynamic Situations. C. D¡az-Canepa, Transferring Technologies to Developing Countries: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach. Part IV: Intelligent Technologies and Technological Intelligences. D.D. Preiss, R.J. Sternberg, Technologies for Working Intelligence. M. Cole, J. Derry, We Have Met Technology and It Is Us.

"This book will provide some interesting intellectual challenges for those who seek to explore how different technologies assist in describing the world, and the multiple approaches to researching questions will provide some interesting ideas that will support new stepping off points for people who seek to research the important roles that different technologies afford for our own thinking and representation about the world in which we live."—British Journal of Educational Technology"This challenging collection of essays deals with the impact of evolving information technologies on human mental life and, indeed, on the nature and organization of human culture as a store of information-processing techniques. What topic could be more relevant to our swiftly changing contemporary world?"—Jerome Bruner, From the Foreword