Robert Pool

Beyond Engineering

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, the author of "Eve's Rib" illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in this highly readable account of how technology and the modern world shape each other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780195107722
• ISBN-10: 0195107721
• Artikelnr.: 21687860

Autorenporträt

Robert Pool writes for Discover and New Scientist and is author of Eves Rib .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thinking About Technology
Chapter 1: History and Momentum
Chapter 2: The Power of Ideas
Chapter 3: Business
Chapter 4: Complexity
Chapter 5: Choices
Chapter 6: Risk
Chapter 7: Control
Chapter 8: Managing the Faustian Bargain
Chapter 9: Technical Fixes, Technological Solutions
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index