Max Headroom and The Efficiency Worshippers: Problems of Control in a Technocratic Democracy.

The article discusses the book "The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology," by Langdon Winner. The issues Maximum Headroom, six feet, Carter, a post-modern siliconraker, raised about economic power, organization, democracy, and technology burn for Langdon Winner. Reading the book should make them bum for the rest of the people. Generally, the book is about the meaning of technology for the way people live and about fundamental questions of political freedom and moral choice in a world of incessant technological advance, replete with possibilities for productivity and horror. Sociologist Max Weber would approve the books analysis. Instead Winner's edifice of political critique and social analysis is founded on a reasonably coherent set of points he wants to make about technology in the modern world. Well argued and wonderfully written, the book is an important addition to scholarship on technology and politics. Of late, sociologists are asking new questions about technology and about possibilities for limiting its untoward effects. Winner wants to ensure that people should not forget the larger political issues.