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Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology

Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology
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Author:
Robert Pool
Publisher:
Sagebrush Education Resources
Release Date:
1999
ISBN-10:
0613921496
ISBN-13:
9780613921497

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About Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology

We have Long recognized technology as a driving force behind much historical and cultural change. Now, in Beyond Engineering, science writer Robert Pool turns the question around to examine how society shapes technology. Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, Pool illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in a book that will revolutionize how we think about technology. We tend to think that reason guides technological development, that engineering expertise atone determines the final, form an invention takes. But if you look closely enough at the history of any invention, says Pool, you will find that factors unrelated to engineering seem to have an almost equal impact. Whether discussing bovine growth hormone, nuclear power plants, or baboon-to-human transplants…

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