Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past - A Social History of Technology

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintended consequences that themselves require solving.

Product details

• Authors: Mila Davids, Mila Oldenziel Davids, Ruth Oldenziel, Erik Vleuten, Erik van der Vleuten, Prof. Erik Van Der Oldenziel Vleuten
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9789462985407
• ISBN: 978-94-62-98540-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Amsterdam University Press
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology