Standards

An engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world.


Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearly all objects that surround us in the modern world. In
In an approachable, often outright funny fashion, Pomerantz and Griffey explore the nature, function, and effect of standards in everyday life. Using examples of specific standards and contexts in which they are applied—in the realms of technology, economics, sociology, and information science—they illustrate how standards influence the development and scope, and indeed the very range of possibilities of our built and social worlds. Deeply informed and informally written, their work makes a subject generally deemed boring, complex, and fundamentally important comprehensible, clear, and downright engaging.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Griffey, Griffey Jason, Jeffrey Pomerantz, Pomerantz Jeffrey
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780262549493
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54949-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 178 mm x 17 mm
• Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / Weights & Measures, Scientific standards, measurement etc