The New Lunar Society - An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution

How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution. Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The Lunar Society included pioneers like James Watt, Benjamin Franklin, and Josiah Wedgwood, and their conversations did no less than ignite the Industrial Revolution and shape the founding of the United States. Telling the stories of these makers in parallel with those of our current moment of crisis on multiple fronts, Mindell argues for a new industrialism. He asks: What does industry look like when it strives to optimize for the lowest carbon footprint as well as the greatest profit? When it values resilience as much as efficiency? When it upholds dignified, inclusive, sustainable work? Optimistic but not utopian about our ability to build the world,

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David A Mindell, David A. Mindell, Mindell David A.
• Verlag: The MIT Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.02.2025
• EAN: 9780262049528
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04952-8
• Seiten: 288
• Abmessung: 141 mm x 211 mm x 25 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; History, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History