George Basalla (University of Delaware)

The Evolution of Technology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the History of Science
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780521228558
• ISBN-10: 0521228557
• Artikelnr.: 26248920

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Diversity, necessity, and evolution
2. Continuity and discontinuity
3. Novelty: psychological and intellectual factors
4. Novelty: socioeconomic and cultural factors
5. Selection: economic and military factors
6. Selection: social and cultural factors
7. Conclusion: evolution and progress
Bibliography
Sources of questions
Index.