Culture of Improvement - Robert Friedel
Technology and the Western Millennium
KORTE INHOUD
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement--the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the culture of improvement is manifested every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life--from tilling fields and raising children to waging war.
Improvements can be ephemeral or lasting, and one person's improvement may not always be viewed as such by others. Friedel stresses the social processes by which we define what improvements are and decide which improvements will last and which will not. These processes, he emphasizes, have created both winners and losers in h...
Improvements can be ephemeral or lasting, and one person's improvement may not always be viewed as such by others. Friedel stresses the social processes by which we define what improvements are and decide which improvements will last and which will not. These processes, he emphasizes, have created both winners and losers in h...
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2007, paperback, shelf wear, good copy [Auteur: Robert Friedel] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: MIT Press Ltd] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: A Culture of Improvement / Technology and the Western Millennium]
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[Auteur: Friedel, Robert] [Pagina's: 588] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: The MIT Press] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium]
