Beyond engineering: how society shapes technology
- eBook
- Edition:
- 1
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Release Date:
- 1997
- ISBN-10:
- 0197561020
- ISBN-13:
- 9780197561027
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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. The invention of the printing press initiated the Reformation. The development of the compass ushered in the Age of Exploration and the discovery of the New World. The cotton gin created the conditions that led to the Civil War. 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 alone determines the final form an invention takes. But if you look closely enough at the…
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