Leonardo to the Internet - Technology and Culture From the Renaissance to the Present

"This book is a sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. In this new edition, the author brings the history up to date with a new chapter on the digital age from 1990 to 2016"--

About the author

Thomas J. Misa (LOPEZ ISLAND, WA) is the author or coauthor of many books, including A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925 and FastLane: Managing Science in the Internet World.

Summary

A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J Misa, Thomas J. Misa, Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781421443096
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4309-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of engineering & technology