Beyond Engineering - How Society Shapes Technology

Zusatztext "Robert Pool brings the whole pageant of technology to life---with all its truimphs, humanness, heartaches, and accidents of history. A great read." Brian Arthur, Professor at the Sante Fe Institute Informationen zum Autor Robert Pool writes for Discover and New Scientist and is author of Eves Rib. Klappentext Drawing on such disparate fields as history, economics, risk analysis, management science, sociology, and psychology, the author of "Eve's Rib" illuminates the complex, often fascinating interplay between machines and society, in this highly readable account of how technology and the modern world shape each other. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Thinking About Technology Chapter 1: History and Momentum Chapter 2: The Power of Ideas Chapter 3: Business Chapter 4: Complexity Chapter 5: Choices Chapter 6: Risk Chapter 7: Control Chapter 8: Managing the Faustian Bargain Chapter 9: Technical Fixes, Technological Solutions Notes Acknowledgments Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Pool, Pool Robert
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.1997
• EAN: 9780195107722
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510772-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Sloan Technology; Sloan Technology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Research, Technology: general issues, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies