Beyond Engineering : How Society Shapes Technology.
Başlık:
Beyond Engineering : How Society Shapes Technology.
Yazar:
Pool, Robert.
ISBN:
9780198026723
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (369 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Preface to the Sloan Technology Series -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Understanding Technology -- one: History and Momentum -- two: The Power of Ideas -- three: Business -- four: Complexity -- five: Choices -- six: Risk -- seven: Control -- eight: Managing the Faustian Bargain -- nine: Technical Fixes, Technological Solutions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Özet:
Part of the "Sloan Foundation Technology Book" series, this book explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case-study example, but drawing in other technologies, such as personal computers and software, and electrical power and space flight.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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