[DOWNLOAD] The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
✿ George Basalla ✿
| #119265 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 1989-02-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.59 x5.43l,.85 | File Name: 0521296811 | 260 pages |
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A seminal work|By Sceptique500|Heroic historiography of science and technology has dominated well past the moment when historians had despaired of kings and heroic battles as shapers of human history. The lone scientist and inventor still hogs today's narrative. These heroes have been joined lately by visionary entrepreneurs à la Steve JOBS, who "invented the future". H||"Mr. Basalla argues his case ingeniously and cites a variety of examples...the reader is astonished again and again at the ease with which Mr. Basalla overturns many cherished prejudices and preconceptions about inventors and their creations." New York Time
Presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based on recent scholarship in the history of technology and on relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. Challenges the popular notion that technological advances arise from the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions that owe little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies drawn selectively from...
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